If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0

My goal is to create a new VMware datastore on my Windows Server specifically for *.iso images. This allows me to store these images away from the Virtual OS itself and helps relieve a bit of storage space.
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I’d just done a transfer of one VMware image to another server but the NIC drivers didn’t seem to transfer over correctly. Wasn’t an issue, just added a new virtual adapter but when I tried to add the previously used IP address I got the following message:

Microsoft TCP/IP
The IP address 10.77.77.7 you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another 'NIC1'. 'NIC1' is hidden from the network and Dial-up Connections folder because it is not physically in the computer or is a legacy adapter that is not working. If the same address is assigned to both adapters and they become active, only one of them will use this address. This may result in incorrect system configuration. Do you want to enter a different IP address for this adapter in the list of IP addresses in the advanced dialog box?

Just to note, this is not specifically a VMware error either. I have come across this before in a genuine installation.
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Go to the local ESXi console and press ‘Alt+F1′
Then type: unsupported (NOTE: the words won’t appear)
Enter your root password.
You will be greeted by this message:

You have activated Tech Support Mode.
The time and date of this activation have been sent to the system logs.

Tech Support Mode is not supported unless used in consultation
with VMware Tech Support.

At the prompt type:

vi /etc/inetd.conf

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An annoying issue but it is easily resolved. When attempting to increase the Virtual disk size I was getting the following error:

Failed to expand the disk '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Image/Image.vmdk': The file already exists (0x270000000c).

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To be honest I thought most of these issues with the 2.6.31 would have been ironed out with the next upgrade to VMware but this is definitely not the case as it seems we still have to use the previous 2.01 patch to get it up and running. You can get the patch from here
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