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New Fling: VMware Tools for Nested ESXi by VMware Labs

New Fling: VMware Tools for Nested ESXi by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called VMware Tools for Nested ESXi. The download is available as vib and is about 1.8MB. This VIB package provides a VMware Tools service (vmtoolsd) for running inside a nested ESXi virtual machine. The following capabilities are exposed through VMware Tools: Provides guest OS information of the nested ESXi Hypervisor (eg. IP address, configured hostname, etc.). Allows the nested ESXi VM to be cleanly shut down or restarted when performing power operations with the…

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PowerCLI one-liner: remove the VMware tools mounted ISO

PowerCLI one-liner: remove the VMware tools mounted ISO

When you do an “Automatic Tools Upgrade” on a virtual machine the VMware tools iso will be mounted into the VM. Unfortunately it sometimes happens that after the upgrade the iso stays attached and this will result in a warning while doing a manual VMotion. When you inspect the VM (edit settings) you will see the ISO being mounted. You can change this to Client Device and the ISO will be unmounted and the warning won’t be shown anymore. Obviously…

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