I recently upgraded an Asus P5V-EM DO from ESXi 3.5 to 4.0 that had a local datastore, and found after the upgrade that my VMs were all marked as unknown / inaccessible and that datastore1 was now called snap-7ac07d75-datastore1 as shown below. To correct this problem I took the following steps. 1) Right click on …
At some point, you may find it necessary to reset the configuration of your ESXi host. A full reinstall may not be warranted plus you may want to preserve an existing local VMFS datastore. When you reset the configuration of your host any configuration changes made will be removed and the password will be deleted …
Some have noticed that the password requirements for ESXi 4.0 logins have become more stringent. In some cases, it may be desirable to edit those settings to make the password standards for ESXi 4.0 either stronger or weaker. Password requirements for ESXi are controlled by the file /etc/pam.d/common-password. Changes to this file will take effect immediately …
The below process could be used to mount a datastore for recovery purposes. In most cases if one has an ESXi install that can’t boot, using the repair option on the install CD or booting ESXi with from a USB stick may be the way to go. But if you need a quick way to …
On a system with a lower amount of RAM you may find that ESXi allocates too much to run the vmkernel and system services not leaving sufficient memory for running VMs. In the below example, the host has 3 GB of memory. ESXi is showing about 2600 MB available for virtual machines. But an important …
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 …
