There are several methods available to patch ESX 3i hosts when the server is deployed without VirtualCenter. First, one can use the VMware Infrastructure Update client to up the host, second, second the host can be updated with the RCLI command vihostupdate.pl and lastly one can install the patch using the remoteInstall utility that comes bundled in …
Once you have imported the RCLI virtual appliance, you may want to set a static IP address for the VM. This can be done via the web interface of the appliance or at the console. To change the IP address via the web interface, access the VM at https://<ip_address:8080/ and login with the network user and the …
With ESX it is sometimes necessary to run the command services vmware-mgmt restart should you not be able to connect with the VI client or if you need the host to re-read the esx.conf configuration file because changes you have made at the console are not visible in VirtualCenter. The services command is not available on ESXi …
The below table lists the devices that ESXi 3.5 Update 2 will be able to recognize. Also included is the module that ESXi will load to enable the device to work. The inclusion of a device on this list does not guarantee that ESXi will work with the device. There are devices on this list that work …
What storage and network devices will ESXi 3.5 recognize? Read More »
As you expand your use of ESXi server, you may find that you need to delegate certain tasks to users who require only limited rights on the host. In the below example, we will grant user1 permissions on the VMs TEST1 and TEST2 and user2 permission on TEST3. When we start, we have the VMs …
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To improve reliability and reduce security vulnerabilities, VMware removed the service console from ESX 3i. To run commands that one would normally run at the service console, it is necessary to download one of three packages from this location. There are two install packages, one for Windows and one for Linux, and one virtual appliance which …
Install ESXi 3.5 to an IDE drive By default, if the ESXi install can not find a supported device to install to, then the installer will quit with the error message: “Unable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 image to.” If it is the case that the IDE …
ESXi 3.5 does ship with the ability to run SSH, but this is disabled by default (and is not supported). If you just need to access the console of ESXi, then you only need to perform steps 1 – 3. At the console of the ESXi host, press ALT-F1 to access the console window. Enter unsupported in …
Some have found the download speed using the datastore browser in the VI client or via vifs.pl in the RCLI to be too slow for day to day transfers. It is possible to enable SSH, but sometimes even the performance of that is not great due to the inability of ESXi to perform SFTP transfers thus relying on …
If you have a host that doesn’t have a CD-ROM or want to modify oem.tgz, you may find it easier to extract the ISO image to a USB flash drive and then run your install from it. The below method will allow you to create a USB flash drive which you can then use to …
