Posts categorized under ‘VMware’

Dell OM now officially supported on ESXi5

A new version of Dell OpenManage 6.5 has been released that now officially supports ESXi5. http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1977.aspx Note that if you have the previously unsupported (but functional) version of OM6.5 imported in VUM, importing this new VIB may break your VUM [...]

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64-bit vCenter install, 32-bit ODBC DSN required!

A few weeks ago I attempted to build out a vCenter instance at an office in Europe, intended to be added to my main vCenter instance as a linked clone. Reading the release docs for vCenter 4.0, it is apparent [...]

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ESX 4.0u1 Intel Quad NIC issue

My server of choice for running ESX 4.0 is currently Dell’s 2U PowerEdge R710. Recently I received 2 of these and began the build out process, only to find that the ESX 4.0u1 installer (and ultimately the entire OS) did [...]

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VCP on vSphere!

Just a quick note that this week I upgraded from VCP on VI3 to VCP on vSphere. This test was quite challenging, but Ive been working with vSphere since it was in beta and had a lot of practical knowledge [...]

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Changing Service Console IP via command line

Had to look up how to change the Service Console IP via command line today… here is a good article: “Once in the service console runt the command “esxcfg-vswif -d vswif0″. This command deletes the existing vswif0. Don’t worry if [...]

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Issue uninstalling old version of VMware Tools

Upgrading an old XP VM to vSphere today, I had an issue when trying to upgrade the VMware Tools.  The tools installer tries to remove an old version of VMware Tools.msi, and asks to insert the “VMware Tools” disk and [...]

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