VMware has a nice feature where you can add memory and CPUs on the fly without rebooting the server. It works like a charm in Windows, but it did not work out of the box in Linux.
Category Archive: VMware
VMware ESX, ESXi, VirtualCenter, Server, Infrastructure
Jan
21
2012
Aug
22
2011
VMware ESXi 5.0
A few brief notes on the new VMware ESXi 5.0 release that are probably not covered elsewhere yet.
Aug
07
2011
Installing ESXi 4.1 from an USB stick
As I wrote in the previous post, I recently bought a mini-iTX card with an Intel Core i3 to replace my aging firewall/router. It so happens that it fully supports VMware ESXi as well, so I loaded it up and are running the router/firewall as a virtual machine. Now, installing VMware ESXi 4.1 from an …
Aug
07
2011
Whitebox ESXi
I remember the first time I got my hands on VMware ESXi. It was the 3.5 version and it quickly became apparent to me that this was the feature. Long gone was the chubby ESX COS which I used before. Of course, having a full COS (Linux) had its benefits, but it did little to …
Jul
01
2009
Breaking the VMware Update Manager
You should believe that the VMware Update Manager was capable of handling missing files. But no, it does not. I removed a couple of files from the repository by simply pressing delete on them. These files were part of a host upgrade baseline and were no longer needed. After the delete operation, I can no …
Jun
20
2009
Performance monitoring problem
My new R710 running ESXi 4.0 has one problem: When the CPU load comes close to maximum, all performance monitoring for the host failes. Only a few, random monitoring requests comes through, making the resource graphs in vCenter look pretty ugly.
Jun
20
2009
Automatic installation of ESX 4.0
Mike La Spina has written a nice post about automatic installation of ESX 4.0 hosts utilizing PXE, kickstart and a lot of scripts. Mike has done a nice job creating configuration scripts, making it easy to copy his ideas for use in your own environment. Auto installation becomes necessary if you need to deploy a …
Jun
10
2009
Feature requests, take two
It’s been nearly 11 months since I wrote the feature request post where I asked for some features currently missing in VMware. Now, it’s time to see how it went:
Jun
10
2009
Changing host name and IP address of a vCenter server
I recently had the pleasure of trying to change the host name and IP address of the vCenter server. The old host has two networking interfaces. NIC1 was connected to the Internet while NIC2 was connected to an internal network with IP address 192.168.30.0/24. The vCenter and the plugins were configured to use the internal …
Jun
10
2009
Dell PowerEdge R200 and ESXi 4.0
I promised some more details on the R200 and ESXi 4.0.
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