Posted on January 24th, 2010 by by Steve
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. [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by by Steve
Along the way you might run into a P2V (or need to build a new VM) that will host an application which has a license attached to it’s NIC. In order to do this, you generally need to provide the software vendor the MAC address to your VM. That being said, it’s important to ensure [...]
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Tags: address, esx, ethernet, EthernetX, ff ff, MAC, mac address, NIC, p2v, range, ssh session, static addresses, Virtual, virtual center, VMware, vSphere/ESX
