This is an old one, but worthy of documentation…
By default root login over SSH is disabled in ESX 3.X and vSphere 4.X. While it is best practice for security to leave this disabled, from time to time a situation may warrant opening up this access.
To enable this on ESX 3.X and vSphere 4.X (w/service console), [...]
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 not recognize either of the two Intel Quad Port GB server adapters I have installed. [...]
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 using the product.
There are mannnnnny other virtualization blogs posting great links to study material. Between [...]
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 you get a message about nothing to flush. Then you need to run the command to [...]
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 then click “OK”. When browsing for the file, it is looking for a source with [...]
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 and Service Console is the name of the Service Console). To remove any VLAN ID from [...]
