ESX3i Eval & PuTTy

[Redsupreme]

Hi

Over the holiday period I downloaded the latest 3i Eval ESX 3i 3.5.0 Build 67921 from https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?eval=vi3

Installed ESX and Virtual Center however I noticed the install was a default install with no options to change or access to a shell on the host. The licence server / files are again auto configured when installing Virtual Center.

I could access both the Host and Virtual Center using the VI client but was unable to use PuTTy

Everything else appears fine. Lockdown mode is disabled, Network test are OK and I can see the VMWare services running in the Virtual Center.

I have created a new user but there is no option to "Grant Shell Access"

The licence details below states it provides full functionality, so any advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Before purchasing and activating licenses for your ESX Server 3.5 and

VirtualCenter 2.5, you can install and run evaluation modes of the software. When run

in evaluation mode, intended for demonstration and evaluation purposes, your

ESX Server and VirtualCenter are completely operational immediately after

installation, do not require any licensing configuration, and provide full functionality

of ESX Server and VirtualCenter for 60 days from the time you first activate them.

When run in evaluation mode, VirtualCenter can support a maximum allowed number

of clients and ESX Server hosts.

During the 60‐day trial, the software notifies you of the time remaining until the

evaluation mode expires.

[rpartmann]

Hi,

as far a s i know is ESX 3i only the VMkernel. So there is no Service Console to log on and as a matter of that no ssh-daemon.

To configure use the Vi Client or the VMWare Infrastructure Remote CLI http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=VI-RCLI.

Mor information under http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vi3_esx3i_i_35_vc25_rel_notes.html

Hope that helps,

Reinhard.

[TomHowarth · Accepted solution]

v3i does not have a service console so there is nothing to PuTTy into, to manage these devices you need to download the RCLI client there is one for Windows and Linux, there is also a Virtual Appliance that does the same job,

you can find them here

Tom Howarth

VMware Communities User Moderator

[Redsupreme]

Thanks

Downloading as I write this.

Will also have a look at the documentation.

I initally used 2.5 and breifly looked at 3.0, so need to catch up on 3i

Once again many thanks

Redsupreme