# Hypervisor
## VMware ESXi
### ESXi SMART
ESXi S.M.A.R.T. health monitoring for hard drives
How does S.M.A.R.T. function of hard disks Work?
### Reset ESXI License
1) services.sh restart
2) rm -r /etc/vmware/license.cfg
3) cp /etc/vmware/.#license.cfg /etc/vmware/license.cfg
4) /etc/init.d/vpxa restart
5) services.sh restart
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### Force Shutdown ESXi Guest force shutdown esxi guest
## VMware Fusion
### VMware Fusion tools, Share Folders, and Debian Linux 1) Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools.
2) Mount the CD
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
(make sure there aren't any other cd's attached to the VM)
3) Copy the VMware Tools tar file
cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-<xxxx>.tar.gz ~
4) Untar
tar zxpf ~/VMwareTools-<xxxx>.tar.gz
5) Unmount the CD
sudo umount /media/cdrom
6) Install the VMware Tools and reboot
cd vmware-tools-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
sudo shutdown -r now
7) Install Open VM Tools
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
8) Mount the host share
sudo mkdir /mnt/hgfs
sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs
9) Make the host shares mount on boot
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Add the following line:
.host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
sudo shutdown -r now
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