"Need have have" - revisited
If you remember about 6 months ago I wrote an article about the fact that hot add of any kind of virtual hardware in the free free version of ESXi. I thought I would revisit the problems I had now …
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A client came to me a few months ago requesting help with a problem they had. They have a system that does some (I guess you can call it) grid computing. They were using 20 desktops with XP to compute …
FTP client in ESXi
This one I saw from a tweet] from lamw. ESXi 4.0 does have an ftp client in the unsupported console for anyone that is interested: http://bit.ly/moZkT — William Lam (@lamw) September 14, 2009 Of …
VMware GO - Will You GO?
VMware has announced the Beta release of their new management product for ESXi free - VMware GO. From the short summary of the product VMware Go is a Cloud based application that enables you get up …
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 …
Install ESX on your Laptop - I had a Crazy Idea
And so this started today with a Twitter post. If you know it or not I am a big enthusiast of trying to install ESX on all kinds of hardware - especially Whiteboxes that are not on the HCL. I have …
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 …
ESX 4.0 Running a VSphere Lab - Part 3
We continue our Saga. Part 2 ended with configuring our cluster and now we go onto shared storage and vMotion. If you looked at the previous topology of my lab you will notice that there was no …
ESX4i build 171294 - released
From a query on the VMTN forums, I found this one. It seems there has been a release (very very quiet one… sshhhh..) from the original GA code version 164009. It now seems there are two versions of …
ESX 4.0 running a vSphere Lab - Part 2
So Part 1 was about setting up the test environment. This part will be about setting up a cluster. But before we can do anything with setting up clusters we need to set up networking. This might be a …