Trying to do simple things and having problems

[merrittr]

Hi

I want to do 2 things

get sshd set up ...

I went in and uncommented the 2 lines in inetd.conf rebooted ... no joy

I have a vm I want to upload to the esxi host how do I do it

ESXI 4.0.1 seems to want to mke you jump through hoops something I dont enjoy I am wondering if I should push for a different hypervisor

[golddiggie]

Are you running the FREE license of ESXi? If so, you don't have all the licensed features that you get when you have actually purchased the product. Still, if you have a VM (from Workstation, or one you download as an appliance) you can still pull it into ESXi's configuration.

For the SSH access, did you end the vi session with the :wq comment? If not, then you didn't save the changes you made. You also need to use a tool such as putty to connect up via the ssh port. It can take a few minutes to have ssh access after you send the kill command (kill -HUP ). A reboot should do the same thing, I just don't bounce my ESX/ESXi servers unless absolutely necessary (not needed for this).

Having the purchased license, and access to vCenter Server, makes a huge difference in what you can actually do with the host.

Even without, you can browse the datastore you're using to store the VM's, upload the directory containing the VM from your machine, and then right click on the .vmx file and add it to the host's inventory. I have seen some appliances that can be downloaded that have to have the first line in the .vmx file removed before ESX/ESXi 4 will accept them into inventory (will show as 'invalid' otherwise).

Before you go dumping VMware ESX/ESXi do yourself a favor and READ the documentation on administrating it. It's not a quick read, but it will give you a lot of useful/needed information. Some of us have gone through official training, but still reference back to available documentation.

Sites to bookmark:

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

http://www.vm-help.com/index.html

http://ultimatewhitebox.com/index.php

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esx40_u1_vc40_u1.html

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/microsite.do

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[merrittr]

Hi Gold

yep I have manage unix systems before , one being ESX 3.0 servers so I did edit inetd.conf correctly. I also cant find a sshd file anywhere on the server.

find / -name sshd turns up only the pam conf.

I also tried the converter to upload this VM but after selecting the source and it being recognized when I point it at the server 192.168.0.103 I get

al system error occurred: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

ESXi and its BusyBox core does not give me warm feelings the old 3.0 RedHat core was way easier to "get into" and use

any advice

[AndreTheGiant · Accepted solution]

For ssh check che configuration file to be sure that is fine.

To upload a VM you can also use datastore browser (right click on the datastore icon) or VMware Converter.

Andre

[golddiggie]

You need to remember that ESX and ESXi are NOT identical. ESXi doesn't have the full console that ESX has. Hence, no linux console to connect into. VMware has made it known that with a future release (sometime after 2011) that the ESX version will be no more. The ESXi version will be the only one you'll be able to install. You can still gain ssh access to ESXi, with the documented methods, but it doesn't have all the same functionality that the ESX product has.

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[merrittr]

Hey Giant and Gold

Thanks for the advice I got it uploaded with the vi client upload folder as per AndreTheGiant. I will put some more work into learing the new ESXi/ESX. I sure will miss the command line though. Still havent figured out the sshd problem I double checked the inetd.conf and the 2 ssh lines for ssh tcpwrappers were uncommented ip4 and ip6 (who uses ip6...). As well when I go services.sh restart I don't see any references to ssh which makes me think something is missing.

Thanks again for you help guys and for the links to doc

Rob M