***Please use this supported method instead of the one below*** The procedure has not changed much since ESXi 3.5 but I thought I would document it anyway. A lot of people seem to end up here by googling “USB ESXi vSphere”. Here you go: First get the following tools: 7-Zip(Free), WinImage(Demo) Download the ESXi ISO (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0-164009.x86_64.iso) Open the ISO with [...]
Kelly Olivier had a good question on the VMTN Communities. How can I check from the Service Console which network load balancing I’m using? Of course his first bet was “vmware-vim-vmd” but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be an option to show which load balancing policy is being used. As far as I know there’s another way to show this: [...]
One of my customers recently asked if it was possible to change the time-out for a power state change, at the same time this question was asked and answered on an internal mailing list. I thought it would be nice to document it. An example of a power state change task would be the shutdown that is initiated by SRM [...]
A while back I published an article on partitioning your ESX host. This was based on 3.5, and of course with vSphere this has slightly changed. Let me start by quoting a section from the install and configure guide. You cannot define the sizes of the /boot, vmkcore, and /vmfs partitions when you use the graphical or text installation modes. [...]
I like trying out new stuff. That’s one of the reasons I upgraded my testing machine to Windows 7. Unfortunately the driver that is included with Windows 7 for the Intel 965 Mobile is far from perfect. Nasty side effects are: flickering taskbar, black boxes on random places of the screen, minimize / maximize / close buttons hidden, taskbar disappearing… [...]
On twitter John Troyer retweeted a question a couple of days ago which basically came down to the following: When your VM which contains the license server goes down and has been down for longer then 14 days you will not be able to actually boot it up. This is because the grace period has expired. As a VMware PSO [...]
I just received an email about an excellent article on VI:OPS. The article is titled “Automating Network Setting Changes and DNS Updates on Recovery Site Using VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager“. It includes a PDF file which contains a description for configuring automatic IP-Changes but also includes batch files for DNS updates. When performing site failover, IT administrators are often [...]
