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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Changing the Service Console VLAN ID via Command Line
To set the VLAN ID of your service console (if you entered the wrong ID, forgot to enter an ID, etc.), you can use the esxcfg-vswitch command! esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v XX -p “Service Console” (where XX is your VLAN ID [...]
vCenter Task Timeout
By default, tasks in vCenter (such as snapshot deletion) will time out in 900 seconds (15 minutes). If you’d like to modify this setting, it can be done easily… Modify the vpxd.cfg (C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/VMware/VMware VirtualCenter/vpxd.cfg) file by adding: [...]