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Installing the Performance Overview plugin on Virtual Center 2.5 Update 4

March 3, 2009, 4:24 PM

This is a great plugin, but it took a bit of work getting it installed.

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Moving a .VMKD in VMware ESX 3.5

April 4, 2008, 9:19 PM

For those savvy in the ways of Unix and maybe even VMware, here is what you need to do…

vmkfstools -i /<source directory>/<VM name>.vmdk /<destination directory>/<VM name>.vmdk
cp /<source directory>/<VM name>.nvram /<destination directory>/<VM name>.nvram
cp /<source directory>/<VM name>.vmx /<destination directory>/<VM name>.vmx

Edit beyond01.nvram and change the swap volume path – AKA sched.swap.derivedName
Register – vmware-cmd register -s /vmfs/volumes/OS_Store/beyond01/beyond01.vmx

Error message about msg.uuid.moved. Use Keep if you are just moving.

Now for the long answer
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