Install and Configure VMware ESXi 6.0

There are few system requirements that must be met before you can install ESXi 6.0 server: - Make sure the server hardware that you are going to install ESXi server on is supported by VMware vSphere. You can check that using VMware Compatibility Guide. - The physical server must have ...

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Configure IP Address and Hostname in ESXi Server

You need to have physical access to the server to configure IP address in ESXi server. Press F2 to log in to Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) of ESXi server. You can configure DNS and hostname using vSphere client.   Enter the password for root user account. Press [Enter]. You...

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Configure the storage area for shadow copies to go to a different NTFS volume on a Windows 2008 and 2012 servers

Problem Backup jobs fail due to VSS related errors indicating either a lack of disk space or IO that is too high to maintain the shadow copies. Solution By default, Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) is configured to write the shadow copies of a volume to a storage location on the volume itself.  This can result in very high IO or low disk space problems...

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