Interesting: Sneak Preview – Build your own vSphere 6 home datacenter in about an hour – YouTube.
–jeroen
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Sneak Preview – Build your own vSphere 6 home datacenter in about an hour – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/16
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Home Labs made easier with VSAN 6.0 + USB Disks | virtuallyGhetto
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/20
Interesting; steps can be found in Home Labs made easier with VSAN 6.0 + USB Disks | virtuallyGhetto:
Disclaimer: This is not officially supported by VMware and should not be used in Production or evaluation of VSAN, especially when it comes to performance or expected behavior as this is now how the product works. Please use supported hardware found on the VMware VSAN HCL for official testing or evaluations.
For a VSAN home lab, using cheap consumer USB-based disks which you can purchase several TB’s for less than a hundred dollars or so and along with USB 3.0 connectivity is a pretty cost effective way to enhance hardware platforms like the Apple Mac Mini and Intel NUCs.
–jeroen
via:
- Home Labs made easier with VSAN 6.0 + USB Disks | virtuallyGhetto.
- TinkerTry‘s (Paul Braren) post.
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ESXi and VMware Workstation: quick way of getting Console screenshots in PNG format; some URLs on your ESXi machine
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/23
Thanks DoubleCloud for the post on Really Easy Ways to Capture VM Screenshot.
It also works for VMware ESXi, and by default is enabled: browse to https://esxi-machine/screen?id=# to get a PNG screenshot of the VM with ID=#.
I’m not sure yet how to get the ID of a running VM, so usually this is a bit of trial and error on a busy system (:
Later: I found out you can get the ID through MOB; see a couple of these links.
- VMware Front Experience: How cool is that: VM console screenshots just by browser.
- Web-Based Datastore Browser in vSphere | DoubleCloud.org.
- A Little Known Secret of vSphere Managed Object Browser | DoubleCloud.org.
For my ESXi the URLs are these:
You can even add parameters to modify this PNG, as per [Archive.is] Capturing Virtual Machine Screenshots in vSphere – VMware vSphere Blog:
w= the pixel width of the scaled imageh= the pixel height of the scaled imagex0= the left side of the bounding box to select the imagey0= the top side of the bounding box to select the imagex1= the right side of the bounding box to select the imagey1= the bottom of the bounding box to select the image
Turn of screen blanking
- In Windows, look at the Power options, then turn off the screen saver.
- On Linux text consoles e.g. you can do this with the command “setterm -blank 0”.
VMware Workstation
There is no way to take screenshots using URLs in VMware Workstation. But as of VMware Workstation 6.5, you can use Ctrl+Alt+PrtSc both in Windows and Full Screen mode. Like the ESXi screenshots, captures only the screen itself (so not the borders/toolbar/tabs in Windowed mode).
Note that form the vSphere client, you can take a movie as well: Creating a Screen Shot or a Movie of a Virtual Machine.
URLs on your ESXi machine
The above leads us to a couple of URLs on your ESXi machine: Read the rest of this entry »
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