Category: ESXi

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMware VSA 5.3 Troubleshooting Scenario [1] 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMware VSA 5.3 Troubleshooting Scenario [1]

I’ve been recently involved in various VMware VSA implementations and I haven’t faced much problems with it, usually is something drastic happens to the vCenter server I would just reinstall the vCenter server and...

My submissions to vSphere Design Pocketbook 0

My submissions to vSphere Design Pocketbook

I was going through my notes, and I came across the points that I had earlier submitted to the vSphere Design Pocketbook contest that was/still is a generous courtesy from PernixData. Although some of...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: vSphere Web Client on Windows Server 2012 2

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: vSphere Web Client on Windows Server 2012

Hello, If you’re installing vCenter 5.5 on Windows Server 2012 then you will need to enable the flash player plugin for Internet Explorer or install flash player for Firefox: For Internet Explorer: Open the...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Upgrade from ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 (HP iLO4 Style) 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Upgrade from ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 (HP iLO4 Style)

Obviously there must be more than one article describing how to do it but I prefer seeing things in action, so I recorded how I upgraded my lab hypervisor from ESXi 5.1 to ESXi...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMDK Management 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMDK Management

Hello hello hello, its a new year..it’s a busy year…any my blog will miss me more :(… so I’ve been fiddling with VMDK and here are a couple of useful things that I logged...

vSphere Tip To Toe: Reset ESXi root user password “Lost r00t o_0?” 40

vSphere Tip To Toe: Reset ESXi root user password “Lost r00t o_0?”

Hello again my friends, this time I came across a customer who seemed to be completely blunt about the root password that he have set on his ESXi servers. As you may know previously...

Install ESXi 5.x on HP EliteBook 8560w Workstation 11

Install ESXi 5.x on HP EliteBook 8560w Workstation

In the process of expanding my lab I got a brand new HP EliteBook 8560w Workstation (Intel Core i7-2670QM @ 2.20GHz w/ 16GB of memory and a build it 500GB HDD which I will...