VMware vSphere: Storage - Thick & Thin Provisioning

 Thick  is Fix volume

Thin  is share volume

Boot Screen Delay

Editing the Virtual Machine’s .vmx

Open the .vmx file with any text editor.

bios.bootdelay = "20000"

                                               OR

Resolution

To make it easier to access the BIOS setup screen, edit the configuration (.vmx) of the virtual machine and add or edit one of these options:

bios.forceSetupOnce = "TRUE"

This forces entry to the BIOS setup at startup.

bios.bootDelay = "10000"

This adds a delay to the initial POST screen, showing it for longer and giving you more time to access the BIOS setup, where xxxx is the number of milliseconds to show the POST screen (There are 1000 milliseconds in a second.). The maximum value for the boot delay is 10000 milliseconds or 10 seconds.

Press Escape [ esc ] to bring up the Boot Menu

BIOS screen comes up, press F2

                        Network Boot F12

UEFI Boot

go to UEFI folder->*UEFI.vmx->  Edit Add

firmware = "efi"

unable to connect to the mks too many socket connect attempts giving up

1. Open CMD As Admin 2. net start vmx86 4. net start hcmon 3. net start vmauthdservice

Download VMware Tools for Windows

packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/windows/

https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/10.3.10/windows/x86/

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