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When I started building my VMware ESXi server, I did not have a Switch that could handle 10Gbe SFP+. Now that I have a Dell X1052, I figured I would cable up a 10Gbe DAC and get moving. Much to my surprise, I received a link light on the switch, but not on the motherboard. …
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If you are not familiar with v-front.de and you have a ESXi servers, you are really doing yourself a dis-service. v-front.de maintains a repository of all ESXi updates and makes it very easy for you to update your servers when the newest patches come out. Lately I have been having a series of interested GUI crashes …
Another VMware basics post and this time I will teach you how to set up Swap for an ESXi Host. The Swap here is for the VMKernel, and basically can create performance boost for those hosts that are heavily utilized. For myself, I created a RAID 1 Volume of two Intel DC3710 800GB SSDs to …
I have been in the process of rebuilding my Plex Server and restoring the data. I popped in four 4TB WD Red NAS Drives and attached them to my 12G Controller. I figured it would be easy to create a datastore across the Raid 5 Drive and contine on my way. Unfortunately that was …
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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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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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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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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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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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