Creating RDMs on SATA Drives

ESXi provides the ability to use raw device mapping (RDM) as a method to provide a VM with direct access to a LUN on a Fibre CHannel or iSCSI storage device. RDMs are useful should you have to share a LUN with a physical server or have SAN utilities running in the VM that will …

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ESXi 4 PXE Install

ESXi comes in two flavors, embedded and installable. Installable comes on a CD but if you have to do a number of installs or repeat installs, it’s a bit of a pain to always have the CD ready. Plus in my home lab, my newer servers don’t have a CD-ROM so I have to dig …

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ESXi Simple.Map

The devices listed below were listed in ESXi 3.5, but are not in ESXi 4.0. Vender Name PCI IDs Device Type Driver Name Device Name Vender ID Device ID Sub-vender ID Sub-device ID Digital Equipment Corporation 1011 1065 1069 0020 storage DAC960 DAC960P / DAC1164P Hewlett-Packard Company 103c ffff ffff ffff storage cciss Unknown Smart …

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ESXi 4.0 Install to 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 ESXi <version> image to.” If it is the case that the IDE drive in your host is recognized by ESXi, then …

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ESXi (ESX 4i) Enable SSH

ESXi 40 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. 1) At the console of the ESXi host, press ALT-F1 to access the console window.2) …

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