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 …

This is something that I do relatively often, and yet, for some reason, I always forget how to do this and end up having to look up how to guides... well here comes another one! It is possible to have a QEMU host boot a virtual machine created for ESXi or VMware Workstation Player. In order do this, you will need an …