Adding ESXi as a standard Operating System
Lately I have been asked more and more to install an ESXi system on a whitebox. Why you may ask - because users (we are a R&D company) are asking to have a box with multiple operating systems with …
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Subscribe via RSS →"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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Exporting Virtual Machines to Another Computer
A potential client (hopefully will be a major client in the future) came to me with a requirement to consider ESX3i as their next platform for a stand-alone lab (x30). The major setback at the moment …
My New ESX3i Whitebox
So I finally got around to installing a box for myself to play around with at work. Of course I do not want a noisy server running under my desk (I am sure that my co-workers in the room would not be …