I’ve seen this question passing by a couple of times now and I found myself going through the document to dig up the reference. I thought it would come in handy to document it: Q) What is the disk size requirements for ESXi installable? A) The minimal required disk size is 5GB (Page 24, ESXi Installable and vCenter Server Setup [...]

** for vSphere 5.0 check this update! ** Today I received a very valid question around a full cluster failure. What happens when all the hosts in a cluster go down and at some point return? Will the VMs be restarted and what do I need to have in place to ensure they will? It seems to be an urban [...]

I was just building a vCD Lab and thought I would document the process. I know Hany has done something similar recently but mine is slightly different. I wanted to have a slim config from a memory perspective and virtual machine count perspective. Before I start, let’s give a warning… ***this is totally unsupported*** Pre-requisites: CentOS 5 – 64 Bit [...]

Internally I have seen this one a couple of times so I knew what the issue was, but outside of VMware not many people have played with VMware vCloud Director (vCD) yet. Here’s the full error that is shown when you create a NAT Router Org network of vApp network: Error creating Shield network appliance. – vClould-Shield edge error: Creating/configuring [...]

I received a question from a customer who wanted, for security reasons, to remove the ESXi web welcome screen. This is the screen that enables you to download the vSphere Client and RCLI and even browse datastores. I’ve tested it and removing (or renaming) the following file will lead to a blank page when the ESXi host is accessed via [...]

While doing a new install of VMware vCenter Server I ran into the following error: Setup cannot create vCenter Server Directory Services instance. Error 28038 This error is caused by the fact that the “Network Service” does not have enough permissions on the root of the drive you’re installing vCenter on. The solution is pretty straight forward and has been [...]

One of the articles which has always been in my top 10 most read(with most hits coming from google) is “ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on a USB memory key“. I have always used win image and 7-zip to get the job done. Basically you are cloning the image to a USB drive, which is fairly easy but we could use [...]