How to shrink a VMWare Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK)

by | Jan 18, 2023 | Virtualization

1. You will first need to enable SSH on the VMWare server. In our example, we are using VMware ESXi running 6.7. It is located under Manage > Services Tab. 2. Here are the instructions for shrinking a VMDK. It’s for ESXi 5.1 but still worked on our newer 6.7...

Using CLI to upgrade ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 6.7

by | Jan 5, 2021 | Virtualization

For this article we will be using Putty for the SSH client. You can do an Internet Search to download and install it or use your preferred SSH client. To be able to SSH into the ESX Server, we need to make sure that SSH is enabled under Host > Actions > Services...