When troubleshooting console issues, and in particular iSCSI connectivity problems, you may read the documentation that will suggest that you use both ping and vmkping to test connectivity to your iSCSI target. With ESX this is necessary as the service console will handle discovery and authentication to the iSCSI target (and thus you using ping) …
At times you many need to pass an option to the vmkernel when it first boots. To do that during an install, press tab on the initial boot screen and then add the desired option after vmkboot.gz as shown in the 2nd image. If you are booting ESXi after an install, press shift+o on the …
If you start the VI client from the command prompt or with a shortcut, you can add several options to bypass the login screen. If you’re using vCenter server you can use –usePassthroughAuth and –server to login to your vCenter server. Instead of –server you can also use the -s option. C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher>vp xclient –PassthroughAuth –server <vCenter_hostname_or_IP> If you connect to …
If you’ve upgraded to or installed ESXi 4.0 you’ll see that you have an advanced option to pick which virtual machine hardware version to use for your new VMs. As noted in the image below, the virtual hardware version will determine which other VMware products the VM can be run on. Virtual machine version 7 …
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 …
