Tag: ESXi
How to Add a 3rd Party driver to a baseline in Update Manager
Working with the Nutanix clusters, I had an opportunity to upgrade them to vSphere 5 via Update Manager. The process of upgrading an ESX host ... Read More
Not enough room for vSphere 5 Upgrade? Free some up!
While using VMware’s Update Manager to upgrade a 4.0 ESX host to vSphere 5, I ran into a space issue. Looking at the event tab ... Read More
Enabling/Disabling SSH via vCenter
Sometimes it is useful to have an SSH session to an ESXi server for troubleshooting. You can always enable it via the console (F2 –> ... Read More
ESX Hardware Boot options (via vCenter GUI)
Not sure if this one is new or not but I’ve NEVER seen the Boot Options before in vCenter for a host. I think it’s ... Read More
Patching ESXi with vMA
Today I had to set up some ESXi servers that required additional hardware drivers to recognize the 10GB NICs we purchased for them. I’ve done ... Read More