Windows 2008 Installation

Follow the screen shot to install Windows 2008 Server Windows 2008 Installation

Select you Language, time and currency format

Type in your product key, if it's a evaluation version click "Next" then "NO"

Select the edition of Windows server to install

Accept the license terms

Select the custom installation if its a new installation, if you are upgrading the version, please select "Upgrade"

Select the disk space where you want to install windows server, the installation is going to wipe out all the data's in the hard drive

The installation will take a while and restarts itself to finish

Once the installation is complete, it will prompt you to change the password

Once you change the password you will be able to log into the server, you will get a welcome screen with initial configuration to complete.

How to copy files to ESXi server through SSH

Copying ISO images or files to ESXi is much easier through SSH. It can be done by enabling SSH and then transferring files through WinSCP.
To enable SSH on ESXi 5.1 follow the screen shot

Once the SSH is enabled download the WinSCP and the connect to the server, then you can access the ESXi server datastore through WinSCP.

The data store path is /vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE

Send Ctrl-Alt-Delete in a remote desktop session

Ctrl + Alt + Del will only work for the local computer.

In order to send Ctrl + Alt + Del to the remote PC, just press the following alternate key combination:

Ctrl + Alt + End

Alt + Page Up – Switch between programs (Alt + Tab is the local command)
Ctrl + Alt + End – Display the Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc is the local command)
Alt + Home – Brings up the Start menu on the remote computer
Ctrl + Alt + (+) Plus/ (-) Minus – Minus takes a snapshot of the active window and plus takes a snapshot of the entire remote desktop 

Router RIP

IP Routing