VMware training documents

Hope you all are doing good!!!

Today I met one new friend, name is "Suresh" he asked me to share VMware documents with him for training.

He is very good person with good hands on experience on multiple technologies.
Here is his LinkedIn profile.

I was sending him all documents on email then, I thought of  uploading documents to my site so all my blog readers can take advantage of it and they can share with their friends and so on.....

As all documents are from VMware and  without any copyright issue I can happily share with anyone.

Here is the link of all documents.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByaeE89rNWq-c3B6RUZWNjlPcEk&usp=sharing

I am writing this blog post from my mobile handset very soon you all will find the downloads links below.

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Reset ESXi VMware Evaluation license to 60 days.

Today my lab evalaution license was end with 0 days remaining; I found good way to reset your VMware licence evaluation mode back to 60 days so you can use it for more 60 days & reset again after 60 days.

now there is no need to format / reinstall your ESXi & vCenter to reset your licence.

Note: I will not suggest this to use in your production environment but you can use it for your lab.

here are the steps below:

Reset licence on ESXi host:

A) For ESX 4  & ESXi 4 , 5

1. Login to the TSM through SSH or Shell
2. Remove the following two files:
3. /etc/vmware/vmware.lic
4. /etc/vmware/license.cfg
5. Reboot server

use below command to do the task

# m -f /etc/vmware/vmware.lic /etc/vmware/license.cfg

#reboot

B) For ESXi 5.1, 5.5 & 6

For ESXi 5.1 and ESXi 5.5, you may need to continually remove the license files as the server reboots for this to work.  The following should do this quite nicely:

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rm -f /etc/vmware/vmware.lic /etc/vmware/license.cfg

reboot ; while true ; do

    rm -f /etc/vmware/vmware.lic /etc/vmware/license.cfg

done

An alternative shows that restarting the services should works just as well as rebooting the server: 

# For ESXi 5.0

rm -f /etc/vmware/vmware.lic /etc/vmware/license.cfg

services.sh restart

# For ESXi 5.1

rm -r /etc/vmware/license.cfg

cp /etc/vmware/.#license.cfg /etc/vmware/license.cfg

/etc/init.d/vpxa restart

The alternative also shows a method for resetting the trial license while connected to vCenter server.  I still think removing and re-adding the ESXi server is cleaner.

Update: 25/08/2015

use below command for 5.1

rm -r /etc/vmware/license.cfg
cp /etc/vmware/.#license.cfg /etc/vmware/license.cfg
/etc/init.d/vpxa restart

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