Tag: ESXi

How to Add a 3rd Party driver to a baseline in Update Manager

How to Add a 3rd Party driver to a baseline in Update Manager

Working with the Nutanix clusters, I had an opportunity to upgrade them to vSphere 5 via Update Manager.Ā  The process of upgrading an ESX host ... Read More

Not enough room for vSphere 5 Upgrade? Free some up!

Not enough room for vSphere 5 Upgrade? Free some up!

While using VMwareā€™s Update Manager to upgrade a 4.0 ESX host to vSphere 5, I ran into a space issue.Ā  Looking at the event tab ... Read More

Enabling/Disabling SSH via vCenter

Enabling/Disabling SSH via vCenter

Sometimes it is useful to have an SSH session to an ESXi server for troubleshooting.Ā  You can always enable it via the console (F2 ā€“> ... Read More

ESX Hardware Boot options (via vCenter GUI)

ESX Hardware Boot options (via vCenter GUI)

Not sure if this one is new or not but Iā€™ve NEVER seen the Boot Options before in vCenter for a host.Ā  I think itā€™s ... Read More

Patching ESXi with vMA

Patching ESXi with vMA

Today I had to set up some ESXi servers that required additional hardware drivers to recognize the 10GB NICs we purchased for them.Ā  Iā€™ve done ... Read More