VMware ESXi 6.5 continues to improve the simplicity of using its platform more and more as new editions come out. Today I’ll show you how simple it is to passthrough a hardware device to a VM. In this case we are going to passthrough the motherboard disk controller, and LSI 2116 to a VM in …
Monthly Archives: March 2017
How to Configure your Datastores in ESXi 6.5
Another basics posts for those of us who have not had the experience of installing and configuring ESXi 6.5. Today we will configure our Datastores. Once we have logged into our ESXi client web page, click on Storage and the Datastore Tab The initial Datastore is the media that you installed your ESXi “OS” on. For …
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How to Add a Physical Nic to a Virtual Switch
With my brand new VMware ESXi Installation, it takes some time to configure everything to your liking and to best practices. ESXi 6.5 is not shy about warning you when you do not have redundancy or something configured as it should. With my setup I have two 1Gbe NICs but ESXi only configured one NIC as …
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How to Assign a License to an ESXi Host with the new HTML5 Console
For those of us familiar with the “FAT” Client that ESXi used to have, this will not be anything new. For someone that is new to VMware this might take them a while to figure out. I have a brand new ESXi 6.5 install that is using the Free License. Luckily I am a VMUG …
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How to Upgrade VMWare ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 via USB
VMWare ESXi just upgraded to version 6.5 and those of that are part of the VMware Users Group (VMUG), we were just able to get our hands on the ISOs. To upgrade VMware ESXi, it is very simple, just load the ISO on a bootable USB Drive, plug it into the server and let it upgrade …
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ESXI 6.5 Install on SuperMicro Xeon D Hardware
Purpose of this guide is very simple, show an ESXI Install from start to finish and to help me remember how I did the install if I need to do it again. Hopefully it will help guide some first timers as well. Our hardware is as follows SuperMicro X10SDV-7TP4F 4X Intel DC S3710 400GB Sata SSD …
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Trinus 3D Printer – Click on First Print
I about a year ago backed the Kickstarter for the Trinus 3D Printer. I have tried a couple 3D Printers, with the best so far being the M3D Printer (which was also a Kickstarter). I went with another DIY, printer that needed to be assembled. That printer did not turn out well, as it was …
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