So far in this series of articles I’ve covered the following items.Part 1 – initial setup and creating a VMPart 2 – add a license key, enable VM automatic startup and shutdown and unregister a VMPart 3 – create a virtual switch and configure a firewall VMPart 4 – install an update for ESXiPart 5 – Creating a datastore and …
So far in this series of articles I’ve covered the following items.Part 1 – initial setup and creating a VMPart 2 – add a license key, enable VM automatic startup and shutdown and unregister a VMPart 3 – create a virtual switch and configure a firewall VMPart 4 – install an update for ESXiPart 5 – Creating a datastore and …
So far in this series of articles I’ve covered the following items.Part 1 – initial setup and creating a VMPart 2 – add a license key, enable VM automatic startup and shutdown and unregister a VMPart 3 – create a virtual switch and configure a firewall VMPart 4 – install an update for ESXiPart 5 – Creating a datastore and …
So far in this series of articles I’ve covered the following items.Part 1 – initial setup and creating a VMPart 2 – add a license key, enable VM automatic startup and shutdown and unregister a VMPart 3 – create a virtual switch and configure a firewall VMPart 4 – install an update for ESXi The server has been running …
In part one of Managing ESXi without the VI client, I dealt with some initial setup issues and creating a VM. In part two I demonstrated the process to add a license key, enable VM auto-start options and to unregister a VM. In part three of these articles I covered the process of creating a new virtual switch to which I …
In part one of Managing ESXi without the VI client I dealt with some initial setup issues and creating a VM. In part two I demonstrated the process to add a license key, enable VM auto-start options and to unregister a VM. In part three of these articles I’ll go over the process of creating a new virtual switch …
In part one of Managing ESXi without the VI client, I dealt with some initial setup issues and creating a VM. In this part, I show the process to add a license key, how to enable VM auto-start options and how to unregister a VM. Adding A License File The VMs on the host had been running for …
The purpose of this experiment was to see if ESXi could be managed without the VI client or the vCLI for that matter. Over the next 30 days I’ll setup and manage an ESXi host without any client. The exception will be using a VNC client to connect to the remote console of any VMs …
You can also find an article on common issues for ESXi 3.5 / 40 here. 1) After you install ESXi 4.0 you get the error: Failed to find boot partition It may be the case that your host is trying to boot from the wrong disk. Check the mode of your SATA controller and take …
If you have no operating system installed on the host that you want to use for ESXi but you know the device vender and model, you can use a resource like http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/ or http://www.pcidatabase.com/ to find out what the PCI vender and device ID will be. You can then compare that with this list. If …
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