Knorrhane

RE: Choose the right block size when you create vmfs datastore

cdc — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:35:37 GMT

Sub-block addressing removes the concern of an 18KB file using 1MB of space in a VMFS datastore that has a 1MB block size.

RE: Expand vmdk files

dragooner — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:22:14 GMT

very thx! nice and good work.

RE: Installing esx 3i on usb stick

HMitschele — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:27:07 GMT

I have done this as well, but crashed after booting with "No local disks found"

regards Harry

RE: Enable SSh on esxi 3 3.5

nikkar — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:06:16 GMT

I cant find the vmware-cmd command on the esxi. So for now I only have one answer which is use the remote cli from a windows box, linux box or the appliance.

/Nikkar

RE: Enable SSh on esxi 3 3.5

ema68 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:33:09 GMT

Hi Nikkar, great news the use of the "unsupported" command. After the availability of the SSH service, now we have the problem to stop and restart the Virtual Machines hosted by the ESXi version. How is possible to launch the "vmware-cmd" command (and other related) in order to perform the stop, backup and start of the Virtual machines hosted by the ESXi version? Thanks in advance for your answer. Bye.

RE: Great article about snapshots

ferdis — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:13:02 GMT

Hi Eric,
please what is the purpose of memory snapshots?

Thank you very much in advance!

Frantisek

RE: Changing the IP address of service console in ESX 3.x

nikkar — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:37:26 GMT

service mgmt-vmware restart

http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/Knorrhane/2007/10/18/restarting-management-agents-vi3

RE: Changing the IP address of service console in ESX 3.x

PerryM — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:01:45 GMT

What are the commands to type to restart the vmware management instead of having to reboot the esx server?

RE: Restarting management agents VI3

nikkar — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:31:13 GMT

No it dont affect the vm´s.
You will loose your connection to the VI client, but after the restart of the management agents you can login to the VI client again.

RE: Restarting management agents VI3

nurseware — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:39:10 GMT

Does this cause all of the vm's on that esx host to reboot?

RE: Changing the IP address of service console in ESX 3.x

nikkar — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:48:50 GMT

edit the /etc/hosts file and change the ip for the host.

RE: Changing the IP address of service console in ESX 3.x

ThalesSMS — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:17:29 GMT

There is a command : esxnet-support which is designed to change the IP settings of the service console.
With this utility, you can easily change all the IP configuration of the service console even the network device used.

Unfortunately, this command is broken with ESX 3.5.

RE: Installing esx 3i on usb stick

pbraren — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:41:59 GMT

Thank you for this post! Found it after creating my own way of doing it (using crude cloning), then found another person documenting yet another way to do it, here's the URL to see those 2 other ways:
http://www.lamnet.nl/wordpress/?p=35

Hope this info helps others give it a try, as while it's unsupported, it's a great excercise for learning 3i, and reducing energy consumption (saving many watts by avoiding RAID5 of 6 15K RPM U320 drives I had spinning on one ESX host). Oh yeah, remember to use a rear USB port, as I've learned the hard way: many machines can't boot from media mounted in front USB ports.

RE: Changing the IP address of service console in ESX 3.x

skellator — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:38:58 GMT

I have the same problem. Everything else works fine. The IP that is displayed on the console is just wrong.

RE: Understanding Full Virtualization, Paravirtualization, and Hardware Assist

osde.info — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:09:05 GMT

this is essential reading

regards
clive (aka osde.info)
http://www.vizzr.info

points=prizes so please click helpful answer or correct answer when appropriate

RE: Changing the IP address of service console in ESX 3.x

jaygriffin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:00:06 GMT

Just noticed -- it leaves the "Http://...." address wrong on the open page when it boots up. And the IP in parens after the host name.

RE: Changing the IP address of service console in ESX 3.x

jaygriffin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:56:54 GMT

Nice - Thank you!