Starting November 11, 2024 both desktop hypervisor products VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion will be available for free to everyone—commercial, educational, and personal users alike. This was announced in this VMware blog article.
VMware Workstation is the desktop hypervisor for Windows and Linux. VMware Fusion is its counterpart for MacOS.
The ESXi command esxcli has many namespaces and options to choose from. It may sometimes be hard to find what the exact command is to perform a task. You can of course use a search engine to find what you need. But with this practical tip you can also find what you need with the esxcli command itself.
First let's have a look at the command itself. When you execute the command without any parameters it will show the possible options and namespaces.
When alarms on vSphere are triggered by the vCenter Server there is an option to run a script. That script will run on the vCenter Server appliance in Linux. In this article I will explain how to setup the script location and permissions and will show a demonstration script.
First of all let's look at the alarm definition in the vSphere Client. In the image below you see an alarm definition for a virtual machine event. When the VM reaches the powered off state this alarm will be triggered. The script that is configured to run is: /home/vpxd/alarm.sh.
When a virtual machine is migrated from one ESXi host to another the traffic for that vm has to be delivered to the destination host and no longer to the source host. How is the physical switch informed about the move? ESXi sends out a Reversed Address Resolution packet on the destination host that will trigger the physical switch to update its MAC-address table. In this article I will explain how this process works and why it is important.
The session recordings for VMware Explore 2024 are available for free for everyone to watch.
In May 2024 VMware by Broadcom announced that their personal virtualization software is now available for free for personal use. This is for VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.
VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use
Because these are now available for free the previous free to use software Player for both Windows and MacOS is now no longer available.
One of my students asked if it is possible to also login to the vCenter server appliance management interface (VAMI) with an Active Directory account. The VAMI is available on your vCenter server on port 5480. After installation of the vCenter Appliance you can login with root and with administrator@vsphere.local (or a different SSO-domain name if you have entered something else than vsphere.local).
When using the vSphere Client it is only possible to export a virtual machine as a template in OVF-format. Exporting in OVA-format is not supported at the moment. This functionality has been removed since vSphere 6.5 (documentation).
It is however possible to export a virtual machine in the OVA-format with the VMware OVFtool via the command line.
In February 2024, shortly after the acquisition for VMware by Broadcom, VMware has removed their free hypervisor ESXi from their website.
End Of General Availability of the Free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x and 8.x) (2107518)
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