Archive for the ‘ESXi’ Category
Posted on August 5, 2009 - by martin
VMware converter: remove hidden networkcard (nic)
If you convert a physical machine to a virtual machine you’ll probably give it the same ip as it used to have. But when you try to modify the ip address in the TCP/IP settings of your vmware nic you’ll get the error that there is an existing NIC with the same IP address settings. This is where your search starts, but you can’t seem to find another NIC in your VM.
Posted on April 12, 2009 - by martin
No sound in ESX / ESXi through RDP
Working on vmware is great, but it gets even better when you have some sounds.
A straight out the box install gives you a error on the sound card.
The audio Service is not running
No audio Devices are installed
It took me some to figure out this problem, but at the end … it was really simple.
Let’s make it work !
Posted on March 20, 2009 - by martin
Windows 7 BETA in ESXi but no NIC
I finally got myself together and downloaded a beta version of Windows 7 … everybody seems to fall in love with so lets test it. The installation went very smooth, just the way an admin likes it. Not much questions to answer, just a few clicks and it installs itself.
Then it reboots and the login screen appears … you log on … Wauw … not bad at all !
Let’s check out Internet Explorer 8 … POEF … no connection … huh … how come … and then you find your answer ‘no network connection’
Install the vmware tools should be your first action, but this is not a supported OS.
Then i started to search web … there must be someone which tried to install this in ESXi and there was.
Posted on March 20, 2009 - by martin
Fastfcp 3.0 for ESX / ESXi
Version 3.0 is here, now with support for ESXi.
Even without changing the ssh setting !
Features and Benefits
- Single console
Multiple Windows, Linux, ESX and ESXi servers file management in a single console without re-entering logins and passwords, and automated sudo for ESX and Linux servers to save even more of your time.
- Flexible file management
FastSCP allows both interactive file management via drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste using familiar Windows Explorer-like UI; and scheduled file copy jobs.
- ESX(i) to ESX(i) copy
FastSCP makes it possible to perform file operations between standalone ESX and ESXi hosts (or between hosts in different vCenters) with ESX(i) to ESX(i) direct file copy. You can browse, copy, edit files and attributes within a familiar interface, whether you’re copying files to ESX or to a desktop.
- Disk space preallocation
Veeam FastSCP performs automatic disk space preallocation on target ESX storage to prevent fragmentation.
- Email reporting
After completing the scheduled file copy job, Veeam FastSCP can optionally send an email with the job statistics and execution results.
- Easy file editing
Built-in file editor for tweaking ESX and Linux configuration files, with ability to edit Linux file permissions (chmod) in a Windows GUI.
Product datasheet – download
Product Releasenotes – download
Posted on January 17, 2009 - by martin
Verschillen tussen VMware ESX en ESXi
ESXi is gratis, dan denk je automatisch ‘ dan kan die minder ‘ dan de ESX versie. Maar wat kan die nou eigenlijk minder ?
Posted on January 17, 2009 - by martin
Gratis Vmware ESXi training
Gratis VMware administration training.
Deze 2 uur durende training bestaat uit korte modules en demos over de VMware ESXi server in een ‘ Single Server Environment ‘
Tevens zijn er interactieve simulaties om het geleerde in de praktijk te brengen.
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Posted on January 15, 2009 - by martin
HP ML110 G5 Server
Looking for a home-server to get some hands on experience with ESXi ?
HP has a pretty neat server wich is fully supported by VMware.
The HP ML110 G5 is a Dual-Core intel machine.
Posted on January 15, 2009 - by martin
Run ESXi from a USB drive
You can make VMware ESXi run from a USB drive.
Nowadays the USB drives are so large and fast and best of all you can buy it for just a few euro’s.
Posted on December 23, 2008 - by martin
Enable SSH on ESXi
Your installation of ESXi is done and you probably wanted to connect to your new server with SSH … too bad.
SSH isn’t supported out of the box and there isn’t a button to click on to simply enable it.
But there’s a nick hack to get this working, just follow the following steps:
- On your ESXi console screen press Alt+F1
- Allthough no command prompt appears, just type unsupported (all lower case letters)
- Enter your root password, you now have found the commandprompt
- type ‘ vi /etc/inetd.conf ‘
- Scroll down until you see the line that start with ” #ssh ” you can search the contents by pressing ” / “
- Move your cursor on the ” # ” and press ” x “
- save your file by pressing ” :wq! “
- restart the management service ” /sbinservices.sh restart “
This should be it, now you should be able to ssh to your ESXi server
But … if this isn’t the case you could also try to stop your inetd process, before you reboot your server.
- ps -a | grep inetd
- kill <pid>
- inetd
That should be it !
