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), [...]
When P2V’ing a server to ESX or vSphere, there is a small list of “clean-up” items that must be done to the new virtual image. I have added an additional item to my list that will modify the custom text and images that computer manufacturers add to the system properties dialogue box. Often when running [...]
Last week while working on a Domain Controller for a rarely used domain, I ran into a challenging issue. I couldn’t login to the DC! (Thanks MS for not allowing local logins on Domain Controllers)! RDP responded fine, I could manage it remotely (and this view logs), but could not actually login via RDP or [...]
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. [...]
Today I began my work with VMware’s DR product, SRM. I’ll be using this tool to migrate a few hundred virtual machines from one datacenter to another, not for DR purposes.
The first issue I ran into took me quite a bit of time to figure out. It turns out that if you are not using [...]
Trying to install ESX 3.X on a new server with greater than 64GB of RAM? Then you’ve probably run into a problem. When looking at the host summary in VC, a host with no VMs on it will appear to be utilizing almost 50% of it’s available RAM! This bug was supposedly fixed via patch, but if [...]
