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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Service Console’
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 [...]
ESX – Enabling Hardware Virtualization
There are several advantages to enabling hardware virtualization technology in the BIOS of your servers when using vSphere or ESX. These include the ability to use EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) on your DRS clusters, the use of 64bit OS guests, [...]
ESX Best Practice – Service Console memory
Something I’ve known the benefits of for a while, but didn’t actually make part of my standard ESX build until fairly recently, is increasing the service console memory during install to 800MB. Out of the box, VMware has given (in [...]