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. I’ve done this easily before…
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Citrix Provisioning with VMXNET3 : Blue Screen of Death on Clones
If you have been streaming Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 vDisks using Citrix Provisioning Services to VMware’s ESX, you’ve probably run into a Blue Screen of Death…
Unable to add ESXI host to VirtualCenter
Adding a host to vCenter is usually a pretty trivial thing. Click. Done. Usually. Sometimes (especially after a repair or move from one vCenter to another), you can…
ESXi Disk Full.
While working in my Lab, I was rebuilding an ESXi host and began to run into a strange issue. I was unable to save any configuration changes to…
Creating an ESXi Installer on a USB flash key.
So you’ve read the unconfirmed warnings/rumors of ESX being end of life’d in the next version and you’ve decided to take the plunge and are about to install…
Running ESXi 4.1, Check your network settings!
I came across a pretty interesting issue while troubleshooting a network issue in a new ESXi 4.1 environment. It seems that the default installation of ESXi will hard…
Licensing the Free ESXi
So lots of my clients are beginning to look at Hyper-V and the idea of trying out the free Hypervisor from Microsoft in their development environments. I put…
Building the ESXi Boot Drive.
With my new lab being built out for VMware vSphere 4.1, I took the opportunity to make the jump over to ESXi from ESX. The unconfirmed rumor is…
Release : vSphere 4.1
WOW, news travels fast in the Blogosphere! vSphere 4.1 was released officially yesterday and there seems to be at least a couple dozen blog posts already out detailing…