I saw a couple of questions on the VMTN Communities around running Windows 8 Dev Preview on ESXi 5.0 and support and the fact that it doesn’t work. Although the OS is listed in the dropdown list after you have created a VM it does not mean it is supported. Support for Operating Systems should always be validated through the [...]

Just like the past couple of days I’ve been playing around with stateless ESXi. I’ve downloaded multiple ESXi bundles / depots and remembered that there was an easier way of creating an Image Profile.  The image profiles are also available as part of an online depot at vmware.com. So I figured I would start using that one instead of downloading [...]

The first patch for ESXi has been released so I figured this was a great time to create and article around how to patch your Image Profile with a new update. The process is fairly straight forward as in this case you will need to create a new image-profile (described here) and link it to a new rule (New-DeployRule and [...]

I was just playing around with Stateless again, aka auto-deploy, and I was wondering how far I could strip the image down to the bare minimum and what the difference would be. I loaded the standard software depot and cloned an existing image profile to a new image profile, for more details on how to do this check the post [...]

When I finished my article about auto deploy I figured it was really lengthy and wanted to write down the bare minimum which can be used as a quick cheat sheet when setting up auto-deploy. Of course you will need to install vCenter, PowerCLI, Auto-Deploy and TFTP first, but I am guessing most of you will know how to do [...]

I was just playing around with auto-deploy and I figured I would quickly scribble down the steps required to configure it. The documentation is okay but it often refers me back and forth in the document which makes it difficult to read at times. Here is what I did to get it working. I was in doubt if I would [...]

The wait is finally over… I’ve noticed many people on twitter craving for it so I figured it wouldn’t harm anyone if I would provide the links to the download page. Here are the links to the direct page of ESXi and vCenter VMware ESXi 5.0 (Build 469512) VMware vCenter 5.0 (Build 456005) (vCenter Server Appliance also available as of [...]