I have a couple of internal ESX 4 boxes, one in prod, the other not. While configuring the second I thought to get SSH up and running. By default root is restricted from logging in remotely, which is ...

When choosing to administer VMware-based virtual machines (VMs), administrators have a few decisions to make when prepping their bare-metal hosts and configuring the guest OSes, the storage spaces, ...

I will admit first of all that I am no scripter. But I find that when I go about the task of doing repetitive tasks, PowerCLI (vSphere's PowerShell extension) is the way to go. I usually also ...