2012-10-16 Initial Post
The other week I had to run this and didn't find any really good instructions. This is for EMC Grab v1.3.1 from ftp://ftp.emc.com/pub/emcgrab/ESX (as of 2012-10-02). The version for ESXi is a Windows executable, so its easier to run. But for ESX, you need to run it from the service console.
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2012-06-20 Initial Post
This VMware KB has instructions for installing ESXi 5.0 on USB drive but doesn't mention upgrading an ESXi 4.1 USB drive.
The upgrade is pretty simple and seems to have worked fine, but now my Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown settings no longer work. I've deselected "Allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system," rebooted, and then re-selected and rebooted, but it still doesn't work.
Here's how to do the USB upgrade:
Make a CD from the ISO, boot your server off the CD and go through everything like it's a new install and select your USB drive. The installer will detect that ESXi is on the USB drive and give you the option to install (default) or upgrade. You'll get another prompt to confirm the upgrade.
I used this ISO:
VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 1 (CD ISO) Installable
2012-03-15 | 5.0.0U1 | 293 MB | Binary (.iso)
My server is Dell PowerEdge T110. See related post http://sysadmin-e.com/vmware-esxi-4-1-usb.
2012-06-20 Updated
2010-12-22 Initial Post
I've never had a chance to work with any version of VMware at work. My last company was so far behind in its IT strategy that even in late 2009 it had absolutely no virtualization strategy at all. I did manage to set up one Hyper-V server for them so that one department could use it for software testing. Where I work now, they do use VMware, but they don't use them on any of the messaging servers that I support. So once again, I have no chance to work with VMware. (more...)
2011-01-03 Update
2010-12-19 Initial Post
From previous research I know that Hyper-V (as of 2008 R2) still does not support Wi-Fi/wireless networking for use by virtual machine guests (at least not directly-- see my update from 2010-12-27 below); the host itself will support wireless though. With VMware ESXi 4.1 I couldn't find anything that states that even the host will support wireless. ESXi guests might be able to use wireless via VMDirectPath or USB device passthrough, but I haven't fully researched that.
Anyway, the point of this post is that I found a way to get around an issue with how to give my Hyper-V and ESXi hosts access to my home wireless network. (more...)
2010-12-22 Updated
2010-11-19 Initial Post
This was a cool feature that came out in 4.0. Basically you just plug a USB flash drive into the computer, boot with the ESXi install CD and select to install ESXi on the USB flash drive. Aftewards, you can run ESXi from the USB flash drive. This allows you to use all your internal hard drives for storing VMs. (more...)
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