Hello there, Today i will let you see how to update your ESXi host with the Host Update Utility (HUU). How do you get the HUU? Check this earlier post. When installed open the vSphere Host Update Utility. Also open the VMware vSphere client. In the vSphere client check the … Continue reading
Today i want to show you how to install, and more important, get the Host Update Utility (HUU) on your machine. The Host Update Utility is used to automatically update an ESXi 4.x host. The Host Update Utility is not available in the vSphere client anymore. It’s still supported though.. so why … Continue reading
Last week we had a problem with some database servers. All are virtual machines and run on a high performance part of a SAN. We received alerts about this SAN being 99% full. We received alerts about some database servers being down. What was the problem? While investigating we noticed … Continue reading
I wanted to do an Operating System Deployment (OS) on my Virtual Machines (VM’s). While testing i noticed you have to tweak some VM settings before this can work. What did i change? First i changed the bootdelay to 10000ms. This made it possible to hit F12 normally. Then i … Continue reading
There is a lot of confusion about which NICs can be chosen for virtual machines (VMs) in VMware. I would like to give an overview for ESX4.0.1. When you create a VM you get the question which OS you will install. The choice you make here has an influence on … Continue reading
The following can happen whilst updating your esxi host: Using the esxupdate or vihostupdate command to update an ESXi host fails. You see the error: Unable to create, write or read a file as expected.I/O Error (27) on file : [Errno 27] File too large This issue occurs because there is … Continue reading
You can enable TSM in two ways: From the console From the vSphere client This post is about the vSphere client. The console way is in this post: http://www.phits.nl/wordpress/2011/06/09/esxi-4-1-tech-support-mode-disabled-by-administrator/ Now on to the client. When inside the client select the host you want to configure and click the Configuration tab. … Continue reading
In ESXi 4.1 you need to enable Tech Support Mode before you can use it at the console. So when you have problems on an ESXi 4.1 host and you press ALT-F1 you get the message that “Tech Support has been disabled by the Administrator”. Most of the time the … Continue reading
A while ago i ran across this problem and i want to share it with you. I had an old desktop just standing there so i thought i could install VMware ESXi on it. When trying to boot up and install ESXi it told me the processor didn’t have the … Continue reading
Sweet! Active Directory Authentication for Esx! No more typing passwords in the client! How do we do this? First of all i presume you have the following set up and running correctly: DNS and NTP at the ESX server There is a AD group called “ESX Admins” on a domain … Continue reading
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