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. [...]
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 [...]
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, and using VMware FT (Fault Tolerance).
Turning Intel VT or AMD-V on must be done on [...]
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 both ESX 3.X and vSphere) the service console 272MB of memory. This may be fine [...]
