Tagged: ESXi

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...

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...

Issues when Upgrading from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.x 0

Issues when Upgrading from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.x

Lately I had a little project where I had to upgrade a VMware Infrastructure from 4.1 to 5.x along all went well, I did vCenter then the vSphere Client and finally I went for...

vSphere 5.0 Tip to Toe: Basic ESXi 5.0 Configuration 0

vSphere 5.0 Tip to Toe: Basic ESXi 5.0 Configuration

Commencing from where we left, now that our ESXi 5.0 hypervisor is up and running we’ll need to do some initial configuration before we can connect to it using the vSphere Client. 1- Go...

vSphere 5.0 Tip to Toe: Installing ESXi 5.0 0

vSphere 5.0 Tip to Toe: Installing ESXi 5.0

As most of creatures that dwell in this web-universe we’ll start it simple and clean, in this series I will be trying to fillfull and comprehensive self-teaching course on vSphere 5.0 in it’s technical...

Configuring VMware AutoDeploy Feature 1

Configuring VMware AutoDeploy Feature

AutoDeploy is a new feature of VMware vSphere 5.0 and it’s the most efficient way to provision a new server as as ESXi 5.0 box, along this guide I’ll be configuring AutoDeploy and I’ll...