By adding few parameters to View Client shortcut we can save some time daily while connecting to the desktop. Follow the below mentioned steps if the domain login credential for View desktop and local machine are same.

1. Right click the View Client shortcut and select Properties.
2. If the View client installation is done at the default directory then the Target will be like this.

“C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc.exe”

Append parameters  -loginascurrentuser, -server, -desktopname  and -interactive to Target.
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ESXi 5.1 has the ability to show  allowed VLANs on  physical NICs (vmnic). By default this option is not enabled on NICs. We have to enable explicitly and gather the VLAN details. Please find the script below which will help you to enable the VLAN STATS on the NICs which have the LINK status UP.
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Here is the script to generate the list of All VMS, VMs with RDMs and VMs without RDMs in a cluster.
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Xsigo released the latest host driver ‘5.2.1-ESX’ http://www.xsigo.com/support/auth/_downloads/_files/docs/521-GA/Release_Notes_V521_ESXi-50_RevA_080312.pdf for ESXi 5 and ESXi 5 Update 1. Release notes for driver has details about the process for injecting the driver into ESXi image manually. There are few steps missing in it which will create problems for the first time VMware PowerCLI users. We’ve written a script to ease your task.

1. Download and install VMware PowerCLI 5.0 – https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=PCLI50&productId=229.

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