Find the password on the host.

Stealing host password's.
The tool used for password recovery is explained on
http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1269-Cool-Password-Recovery-Tool.html.

Here is it in action.

queuedepth

Well im still struggeling with the performance of the esx environment.
Duncan had written a nice post about queuedepth.
queuedepth-and-whats-next

Have to dive in it to check with the storage department.

Sysprep file locations and versions vmware

Running sysprep without files can be hard ;) Vmware has a kb about this which is very handy. All the information is in one place. See link at the bodem.

Description:

Symptoms
When attempting to customize the deployment of a virtual machine the radio buttons are disabled (greyed out).
When a virtual machine (VM) is deployed from a Template, you find that the SID is always the same, despite the fact thatyou chose the option to generate a new SID during Template deployment and guest operating system customization.
When attempting to create a new virtual machine from a Template in ESX v3.5 you receive the following error message:

Warning: Windows customization resources were not found on this server
Message in the guestcust.log:
deploy doesn't contain known sysprep files

Link to Knowledge base

Add role to user

In my quest to learn vmware:
Adding permissions to a user.


Use the VI Client to connect to the ESX server.
Select the Server in the left pane, and then click on the Users & Groups tab in the right pane.

Create User:
Click on the Users button
Right Click and Select Add
Specify the desired User Name, Password, etc and Click OK

Create a Local Group
Click on the Groups button
Right click and select Add
Enter the group name you want and enter the User Name you created above in the User Name field and click Add
Click OK to create the group

Assign Permissions
Click on the Permissions Tab
Right Click and Select Add Permission
Click on the Add button and select the Group you created above and click on the Add button.
Click on the OK button.
Make sure the Assigned Role is set to Read-Only and click OK.


The information was from this thread. Thanks bflynn0!~
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/101775

Buslogic to LSI on esx

Ok its written all over the internet but im gonna do it again :)

We have some machines on our esx env. that are still on buslogic configuration. We want to change this to LSI (recommended config by vm). To have a performance increase.
Enviroment (38 xp machines buslogic non persistent)
Steps to take
Shutdown vm
change diskmode
Download the vmx file
edit vmx file
add lsi scsi
upload the vmx file
boot with 2 scsi adapters
shutdown vm
edit vmx file

Ps dont download the latest version from lsilogic. The 1.28.3.0 does not work correctly in windows xp.
I now used 1.20.18.0 from the lsilogic website. This is working. On the esx server itself the version 1.21.26.0 is installed. Not figured out how to use this in the windows xp installation.