For those like me who would like to check ESXi 3.5 update 2 but don’t want to install on a local harddisk. Here’s a good pdf about how to install it on a USB memory key. It’s fairly easy and I just booted my IBM X61 laptop with ESXi. In short: First get the following tools: 7-Zip(Free), WinImage(Demo) Download the [...]

I just noticed the following, when creating a new(!) HA cluster on VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 2 the default isolation response is set to “Leave powered on”. In other words, when your ESX host hasn’t got a network connection any more the VM’s remain on. This is a huge change because the default used to be “Power Off”. Besides “Power Off” [...]

If you just upgraded to 3.5 Update 2 and updated VMware tools and want to use VSS for snapshotting than you will have to enable this manually for each VM: In the VMware Tools installer, select Modify > Drivers > VSS. Complete the installation process. Restart the virtual machine to make sure VSS components are installed and running.

Am I the first one to notice this? VMware just released Update 2 for ESX(i) 3.5 and a whole bunch of new patches! So what’s new? Windows Server 2008 support – Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions) is supported as a guest operating system. With VMware’s memory overcommit technology and the reliability of ESX, virtual machine density can [...]