Verifying vShield component on VMWare Tools

Checking if vshield component was installed: Method 1 On the Windows registry, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Features\ You must find the installation features key of VMware tools in this registry path. (my case is 9859B621815EE6C42AAAD96C84CF9AAA) and search for the component that you want. (VShield) The difference between a installed component and not installed component is the symbol […]

The simple ways to add or remove VMWare Tools components.

We are in this project to install VMware vShield with Deep Security in all virtual servers and then one question came on top.  “it´s possible to install a vmware tool component without reboot the server, or without reinstall all of vmware tools?”. The answer is YES. So if some reason, you need to add or […]

.vmdk (descriptor file) – A little bit more

VMDK are files created automatically during the vm disk creation. The files .vmdk are the descriptor file and defines the structure of the –flat.vmdk disks (where the data live) Example: WIN2K8R2_SP1_STD.vmdk is  Descriptor file WIN2K8R2_SP1_STD-flat.vmdk is data disk You can read the descriptor file to view the proprieties of the disk cat “diskname”.vmdk  Example: cat WIN2K8R2_SP1_STD.vmdk […]