Starting after Update 1 for VCenter 6.0 you are able to update your Vcenter from the Web Interface. Unfortunately for me, I have pre-version one installed so I need to update via SSH. First step is login via SSH to your VCenter as the Root User using your SSO Administrator User and password Next you …
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Easy ESXi Patch Updates
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 …
How to Setup Swap in ESXi 6.5
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 …
Hardware Passthrough in VMware ESXi 6.5
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 …
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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