Patching your ESXi Host – Without vCenter
VMware Update Manager is the Enterprise tool for Patching your ESX Hosts and for some also the tool used to patch your Windows / Linux Guests as well. This is all fine and dandy, but what is you do …
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Subscribe via RSS →What Happened to Export a VM in ESX4i?
I have been meaning to blog about this for a while so hear it is. One of the features I used in ESX3i was the option to export a VM once it was powered off. This made the option of moving a VM off a …
ESXi patches - My Response to Jeff Woolsey
Jeff Woolsey posted a comparison of disk footprint of ESXi and Windows 2008 Hyper-V server. Not getting into what I think of it yet, just a few facts and misconceptions before I start. Since then …
VI client Install in Disconnected Environments
Yes disconnected environments do exist! I mean completely and totally disconnected. NO INTERNET!!! Well I had one of those today. My customer has a network which is completely and physically …
Hot Add and "Need have have"
One of the new features that were added to ESX4 is Hot-Add. What this feature does it allows you to add additional RAM or vCPU to your VM (if the operating System supports it) Like any good vAdmin - I …
ESX3i to ESX4i Update
Released with the new version on Thursday was a upgrade package from ESX3i to ESX4i After you have downloaded the package – proceed to update your host. The example below is a VM installed with latest …
vSphere 4 – So What is new?
Well I think my speculation was not far off. if you read my previous post I speculated that we would not get anything Unofficial Release Date - May 21, 2009. We got this from the day that you can …
VI Client vulnerability - Security Alert
I picked this one up on Twitter and Secunia. Another reason to to upgrade to VC 2.5 U4 VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client Password Disclosure Weakness Secunia Advisory: SA34585 Release Date: …
New VMware Product Releases
NO! it is not the new ESX version! (there are other products that VMware sells besides ESX you know) Besides Update 4 for ESX and ESX3i that were released last week: VMware Player 2.5.2 VMware …
VNC Built-in Backdoor - Part 2
In continuation of my previous post about this issue with VNC and direct access to a vm through the service console. In my original findings, I stated that this was possible with both ESX3i and ESX …