Tag: ESXi

How to Add a 3rd Party driver to a baseline in Update Manager

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!

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

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)

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

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