Category: How to guides

A siries of step-by-step guides, complete with screenshots and supporting downloads.

Installing open-vm-tools on Ubuntu Server

John Borhek How to guides, Linux, Operating Systems, Ubuntu, VMware vSphere October 6, 2015

Most every Virtual Machine needs to have some sort of VMware Tools running. In the “Old Days,” the norm was to mount an ISO provided by VMware and install their version of the VMware Tools. More recently, VMware has been encouraging Operating System vendors and communities to develop their own version of the VMware tools,
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Building a vSphere Home or Learning Lab – Part 2

John Borhek How to guides, Linux, Operating Systems, VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation September 29, 2015

In Part two, we will install the VMware vSphere Client for Windows, create forward and reverse DNS (which is a prerequisite for installing vCenter in any form) and then we will install the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) to manage our ESXi VMs

Building a vSphere Home or Learning Lab – Part 1

John Borhek How to guides, VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation September 26, 2015

In Part one of this exercise, I am going to show you how to get and install VMware® Workstation™ Pro, and then build your ESXi Hosts (servers) as Virtual Machines.

Cloud permissions for VMware vSphere (Roles, Privileges and Permissions)

John Borhek Cloud Computing, How to guides, VMware vSphere September 24, 2015

VMware vSphere offers powerful native tools to manage users’ access to resources in a vSphere environment. Administrators may create custom Roles that are composed of one or more granular Privileges. Each Privilege is the most granular right that can be ascribed within vSphere, such as the ability to power-on a virtual machine (NOTE: power-off is
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