Time to start planning the patching process: VMware KB: VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-Update01: VMware ESXi 5.1 Complete Update 1.
You can also download the fresh installation ISO at Download VMware vSphere Hypervisor for Free.
–jeroen
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VMware ESXi 5.1 Complete Update 1 is out (via: VMware KB: VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-Update01)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/29
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vSphere 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) can run any hardware level since ESX Server 3.5
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17
Last year, I missed this tiny sentence:
So in plain English, any VM that was generated on VMware ESX Server 3.5 or later can run atop ESXi 5.1 unchanged.
Which means it is a snap to move your VMs from older ESX / ESXi / vSphere versions as long as they are ESX 3.x or later.
In fact hardware version 7 has the widest compatibility amongst ESX/ESXi/vSphere/Fusion/Workstation/Player versions (see the table at the bottom).
The free version still has a 32 gigabyte physical RAM limit (people are still confused by the vRAM / Physical RAM distinction, especially since vRAM is not limited any more). Read the rest of this entry »
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Resize your VMware ESXi/ESX/vSphere disks (via JJClements.co.uk)
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/13
James Clements explains how to resize your VMware ESXi/ESX/vSphere disks.
You can resize the disks live when using ESXi/ESX/vShere 4 and up.
When using Windows Vista or 2008 and up, you don’t need special tools for resizing the partitions on those disks: the built-in disk manager can do it.
When using Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP or less, then you need the EXTPART tool from Dell as explained by GeekSeat:
All you need to do now is provision the extra space to the VM, then run the tool at the command line and follow the wizard:
C:\>extpart.exe
ExtPart - Utility to extend basic disks (Build 1.0.4)
(c) Dell Computer Corporation 2003
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Volume to extend (drive letter or mount point): c:
Current volume size : 66285 MB (69504860160 bytes)
Current partition size : 76285 MB (79990815744 bytes)
Size to expand the volume (MB): 76285that’s it – job done . . zero downtime (watch out of course . . this works differently if you have a clustered disk to extend – see: http://geekseat.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/replacing-clustered-storage-for-a-sql-cluster-emc-ce-ms-clustering/ )
Note the “Size to expand” is actually the number of MB you are adding to the volume as Redelijkheid explains.
Sometimes you need to do this in multiple steps as diskmgmt.msc does not always give the free partition space in megabytes.
There is no need to reboot after expanding using ExtPart.
Edit: 20111222; you can download ExtPart through the DELL web-site; there are also direct http downloads of the EXE and README, and direct ftp downloads for the EXE and README.
If you don’t trust ExtPart, there is always the GParted way as explained by BleepingComputer.com.
–jeroen
via:
- JJClements.co.uk » VMware ESX vSphere resize disk.
- Extend System Partition on a Windows Server 2003 VM using Dell ExtPart.
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ENDIAN Firewall – Connected client can access EFW but no other hosts: enable promiscuous mode on VMware ESXi
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/12
While solving a problem with Windows 7 machines not being able to ping the machines on the GREEN LAN of an Endian when connecting through OpenVPN, but XP machines could, I did a few upgrades, then went on to solve the problem.
- Upgraded from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1 (I needed this anyway because of Pass Through USB support)
- Upgraded the community edition appliance from Endian 2.2 to Endian 2.4 (which has more configuration options, and better ways for reporting and logging)
Then I went on solving the issue, which I suspected was a kind of routing problem. Read the rest of this entry »
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