Hide VMware Tools Tray Icon on Citrix XenApp
On many situations, you may want to hide the VMware Tools Tray icon on Citrix XenApp or RDS servers. This can be achieved by implementing a registry entry.
vSphere
The focus of this category is VMWARE vSphere (mainly 4.x and later editions).
VMware vSphere 6 Update Manager Database
Although the VMware vSphere 6 Update Manager installation provides the option to install and configure an embedded version of SQL Express 2012 server, we will instead opt to utilize the SQL server utilized for vCenter, create a new database for Update Manager and create a system DSN entry. These steps are similar if we wanted to utilize an external SQL database for Update Manager.
VMware vSphere 6 Update Manager Installation
This is a basic step-by-step guide on how to install VMware vSphere 6 Update Manager. This setup may be more typical for smaller type of organizations with few hosts and small numbers of virtual machines.
VMware vSphere 6 Client Install
This is quick guide on how to install the VMware vSphere 6 Client. This is the Windows-based client which has been deprecated starting from vSphere 5.5. New features in vSphere 5.5 and later are only available in the vSphere Web Client.
VMware vCenter 6 Upgrade
This is a quick guide on how to perform an in-place upgrade of vCenter 5.x. This upgrade was performed on a vCenter installation which included its own SQL Express database running on the same server.
VMware vCenter 6 SQL Express Upgrade
This guide will assist you with the VMware vCenter 6 SQL Express Upgrade process instead of migrating to VMware vPostgres.
How to Enable Copy Paste in VMware vSphere Client 4.1 and Later
As per VMware, Starting with vSphere 4.1, the Copy and Paste options are, by default, disabled for security reasons. This article explains how to enable copy paste in VMware vSphere client 4.1 and later.