{"id":27,"date":"2012-07-05T17:36:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T21:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-07-06T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T21:43:13","slug":"working-on-an-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"VMware vSphere Administration using Fusion on iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a frustrating time a while back trying to do VMware vSphere admin work on an iMac. I run a Windows 7 VM using VMware Fusion. The issue I ran into was building nested VMware ESXi hosts and pressing <strong>F11<\/strong>. Pressing <strong>F11<\/strong> natively turns up the volume, and does so also while in the Windows 7 VM. I thought to press the <strong>FN<\/strong> key with <strong>F11<\/strong> to find out now my windows all disappear taking me to the desktop (probably some OS X term that I should know since people call me a fanboy, but not coming to mind now). I solved the issue initially by booting my MacBook Air to a BootCamp&#8217;d version of Windows 7 and doing the install there as it was quick and dirty. Today after pressing many key combinations I finally figured out the magic. After work I decided to start working on the build of a lab for Indy VMUG Demo Days 2012. I would really like to put together a lab to show off the vSphere Replication piece of VMware Site Recovery Manager 5. I think the technology to migrate to a new datacenter with unlike hardware on the other end is valuable. Well building this lab requires a few nested ESXi hosts and will require a few presses of <strong>F11.<\/strong> The magic key combination is <strong>COMMAND + FN + F11<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>*update* it was brought to my attention to use the menu and follow\u00a0<strong>Virtual Machine &gt; Send Key &gt; F11.<\/strong> For some reason or other my memories are of it not working. I will have to try it again this evening. Other articles out there say to use <strong>FN + F11<\/strong>, which I believe works on the Bluetooth keyboard, however with my iMac I use the full keyboard and it does not work and requires <strong>COMMAND + FN + F11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*update 2* I have verified that using the<strong>\u00a0Virtual Machine &gt; Send Key &gt;<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>F11<\/strong>\u00a0does in fact work. I prefer the keystrokes, but to each his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a frustrating time a while back trying to do VMware vSphere admin work on an iMac. I run a Windows 7 VM using VMware Fusion. The issue I ran into was building nested VMware ESXi hosts and pressing F11. Pressing F11 natively turns up the volume, and does so also while in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19,17,9,8,10,15],"tags":[12,18,13,14,11,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filippello.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}