Copy vs. Clone

In VMWare Server one can stop the server and run cp /VMWare/VMImage /AnotherDir/VMImage -r and the image is find and it is fast. Howerver, if you do this on the vmfs files system you will waste lots of time. The best command thus far that I have used is vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volume/storage1/VMImage.vmdk /vmfs/volume/storage2/VMImage01.vmdk (make sure you have a filename.vmdk or it will not clone.
This will cause the VMFS files system to clone the disk at the SCSI or SAS speeds.

From VMWare

Netsh command

use this to add a primary ip address
netsh interface ip set address name=”Local Area Connection” source=static addr=ipaddress mask=netmask

add gateway

netsh interface ip set address name=”Local Area Connection” gateway=ipaddress gwmetric=1

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add more IPs to same NIC

netsh interface ip add address “Local Area Connection” 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0

Admins can use the above command for batch files on webservers etc.

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to delete an IP(s)

netsh interface ip delete address “Local Area Connection” ip address

to delete quickly

netsh interface ip set address name=”Local Area Connection” source=dhcp