One of my testing/sandbox computers, that’s not running on a UPS, was unexpectedly powered off the other day when a falling tree branch in my neighborhood took out a power line. Hours later when the power was back and I turned on my computer, one of my virtual machines running on VMware Workstation 12 wouldn’t … Read more
Order a Hetzner Dedicated Root Server with no operating system, called a “Rescue Server”. Purchase an add-on IP address for the server and request a separate MAC address for it. Request a LARA Console session from Hetzner with a VMWare ESXi installer USB inserted in the server. (Transferring iso over the web takes longer than … Read more
I rented a rescue/root server from Hetzner and was attempting to install VMWare ESXi to it via LARA Console. After Waiting 45+ minutes for the .iso to transfer and load via Drive Redirection, the ESXi image booted successfully and the install process started. Then, as my luck would have it, an error occurred with a … Read more
A while back I installed VMWare ESXi 6.5 on some Root Servers from Hetzner. The majority that I setup were Hetzner EX41S-SSD builds but I also did a Hetzner PX91-SSD build. The first few EX41S-SSD servers took VMWare ESXi 6.5 fine without problem – the only thing I’d suggest is having Hetzner put a 6.5 … Read more
I was installing VMware Workstation 12 Pro yesterday and I kept getting this “Failed to install hcmon driver” error at the very end of the install, and each time it would undo the install and I’d be left with nothing. After a few Google searches I found this page in the VMware Knowledge Base and … Read more
The other day I was trying to uninstall and then upgrade my VMware Workstation from version 10 to 12 and I kept getting an “MSI ” Failed” Windows Error. Turns out it helps to stop not only VMware programs running via Task Manager, but to also stop the VMware Windows Services. After that, VMware Workstation … Read more
