A Windows Server key will allow you to create a Windows virtual machine (the number of virtualised instances depends on if it is Esstentials, Standard or Datacenter and more information can be found at the Microsoft Product Licensing Page). In order for an OEM key to active, it must be able to see some BIOS …

In order to check that the correct firmware and matching driver is in use, you will need to refer to the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). In order to narrow down the search on the HCL, we need to obtain some values from the hardware. These are namely: VID (Vendor ID) DID (Device ID) SVID (Sub-Vendor ID) SSID …

I use VMware on my Raspberry Pi, however these do not quite have the capacity to run the SHD appliance, and as I have no other VMware host, I decided to see if I could run it on a QEMU host. Spoiler.... I can! and here is how to do it. Convert the downloaded .ova file to qcow2 format. See my previous post on how to do …

During troubleshooting a customer issue, I stumbled accross this a tool which would be very useful helping to understand the causes of system failures while using a VMware ESXi host. The tool is question is VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics. This is a virtual applicance which you can use to analyse Support Logs from an …