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ESX on the IBM System i

September 30, 2008


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ESX 3.5 came early this year

Posted by dave@NLC Sep 30, 2008

Well, I couldn't wait to go to ESX 3.5, so I just finished upgrading my Second BladeServer to ESX 3.5

Now I didn't follow these instructions, at least not completely. I unlinked my Storage spaces, ran the dltlnxsvr command, and then inslnxsvr command. Then I installed 3.5 and just relinked the storage spaces up to each ESX host, and viola! I was done!

Now this might not be good for you, I don't mind reconfiguring all my Virtual Switches, I think it's good practice :)

I did run into one snag, when running the inslnxsvr command, I received an XML parsing error, apparently, somewhere in the command it tries to do a CHGTCPA command, and the XML file that stores that info is in the IFS. Well it was empty, and I had to delete it, then run the CHGTCPA command from the i5, and prompt it. That put in all the defaults. You press enter and it creates the file, then the inslnxsvr command works. Thanks to Wayne at IBM for helping me with that.

Well, more to come soon, VDI and thinapp here I come!

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This is all about my experiences running ESX on IBM BladeCenter and System x integration with IBM System i

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