As the subject indicates, I am new to ESXi. I have it running but I have 2 questions that I can't find answers for (I'm probably looking in the worng places for the answers);
1) When I connect to the ESXi host, I am prompted telling me that the evaluation license will expire in 60 days. I have a license (the free ESXi license) but I cannot find any place to provide it to the host from within vSphere. How do I apply it so that it stops prompting me and, more importantly, doesn't expire in 60 days? The link on the prompt just takes me to a web page where I can download an eval copy of ESXi - which is kind of odd.
2) The machine I have ESXi runnin on has 3 nics; one on the motherboard and two in expansion slots. But, ESXi only recognizes one of them. I assume that this is a driver issue but I cannot firgure out where I get the drivers from or how I install them. Can this be done from within vSphere or do I have to do it from the console? I didn't see anywhere in the console that would allow me to install drivers, either.
Thanks
Bert
This is getting frustrating. I checked the event log on the ESX box and it is telling me that "The Discovery target returned a login error of: 0301". The VMware help on this isn't much help because it says that there is a problem with the iSCSI host - either the array is offline or there is a problem with the port. I know that neither of those are true because I added a Windows 2012 box to the list of initiators allowed on the target and it was able to connect and disconnect at will. So, I added CHAP on the target but not on the ESX box just to see if the error changed (I figured that it should because it will now be failing a CHAP challenge). No change. Still the 0301 error. Plus, I checked the event logs on the target server and found nothing. Not even an audit failure in the security log which is what I expected. Just to be safe, I added the ESX box to Active Directory as well. Still nothing.
Bert
