Rename a VMDK file in VMware’s ESX server.

May 13 2009 by admin in I.T. Knowledgebase, Virtual Computing |Comments Off on Rename a VMDK file in VMware’s ESX server.

A vmdk file is a VMware Virtual Disk file. This is the file used by VMware ESX server that represents a hard drive on a virtual machine. Renaming a vmdk file is not as simple as opening the datastore viewer, right click and rename. No, that would be too easy. To do it, you have […]

Keeping your SAN free of clutter when deleting VM’s in VMWare ESX.

May 6 2009 by admin in I.T. Knowledgebase, Virtual Computing |Comments Off on Keeping your SAN free of clutter when deleting VM’s in VMWare ESX.

The process for deleting VM’s and removing them from your SAn is quite simple, but what you may not know is that the simple way will leave all kinds of remmants, and orphaned files still sitting on your SAN.  In this post I will detail everything you need to keep your SAN clean and free […]