As reported earlier, the Update Manager (UM) does not use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) when it connects to the UM server. The update will therefore fail if you don’t have the UM Server on the same search domain as the ESX(i) servers you are trying to update. After reading some comments on the …
Monthly Archive: July 2008
Jul
31
2008
Jul
31
2008
Serial Console on VMWare ESX(i)
Just to follow up on the post about Serial console over IPMI: The ESX(i) supports serial console, but you have to configure it under “Configuration –> Advanced Settings –> VMKernel –> Boot”. I didn’t get a real console on the VMware ESXi (I didn’t try to hard neither), but I got the debug output from …
Jul
31
2008
Serial console over IPMI
The PowerEdge R200 is equiped with an IPMI controller which enables you to control power settings and read sensors over LAN. The version on the R200 is 1.5 which is rather old and outdated, but it does the job. One of the more hidden features of the IPMI controller is the ability to support serial …
Jul
28
2008
VMware ESXi available
As said earlier, VMware is releasing ESXi for free starting today. The CD image is available from VMWare’s page. This is a great offer from VMware :-D
Jul
27
2008
VirtualCenter Update Manager problems
After upgrading from 2.5 Update 1 to Update 2 the Update Manager failed to scan hosts. It said that the metadata was missing. The metadata is supposed to be downloaded by the update manager on a regular basis and it worked nicely in Update 1. What puzzled me even more was that both my VI …
Jul
27
2008
ESX(i) 3.5 Update 2 is out!
In my previous post I asked for hot cloning/backup and IPMI support. What I didn’t know at the time of writing was that VMWare already had plans for implementing these features. Reading through the changelog for VMware ESX(i) 3.5 Update 2 I notice that both IPMI support and the hot migrating is listed as two …
Jul
26
2008
VMware Infrastructure: Feature requests
After using the Infrastructure for some time, I have a list of features I want to see in the next VIC: 1) Live cloning or backup: I know that VMware have consolidated backup to provide this function, but it requires either another backup program acting as a frontend or a number of command line commands. …
Jul
26
2008
ESX and the iSCSI IQN
Being both a Norwegian, and a newbie when it comes to iSCSI and ESX(i), it shoudn’t come as a surprise that I had my fair share of problems getting iSCSI on ESX to work. As for those of you who doesn’t know Norwegians, we are pretty much known for completely ignoring every piece of documentation …
Jul
23
2008
Followup on ESXi
As reported in the previous post, ESXi will be avaiable for free on July 28th. As this is great news for all the virtualization geeks and sysadmins out there, I would like to share some of my experiences with ESXi. First of all, installation is a piece of cake: Boot with the CD (I haven’t …
Jul
23
2008
VMware ESXi for free
According to InformationWeek, VMware ESXi will be available for free from July 28th. Previously priced at $495, the battle with Microsoft Hyper-V has made VMware to release the ESXi as a free download. As a fan of VMware, I am happy to say that this is a bold move. ESXi is an enterprise virtualization solution …
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