Category: VMware

Create a ESXi 5.1 ISO file with additional network drivers

As vSphere 5.1 is just released, you can run into the problem that the default ISO from VMware doesn’t contain the right drivers for you hardware. During installation you don’t have the option to import a driver. And if no network card is detected, installation won’t continue. In order to fix this problem you have […]

Monday September 17th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

How to mount a NFS share using CLI

Just a quick post how to mount a NFS share using the ESXi CLI. You all probably know that when it comes to storage protocols, NFS is often used with NAS storage devices. You can mount a NFS share with the vSphere client. But when mouting a NFS share through the vSphere client fails, it’s […]

Thursday August 30th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

How to create additional VMNETs in VMware Fusion

The last couple of weeks I’m developing a VMware SRM training. As with every training there are some labs. I order to make the classroom setup as easy as possible I wanted to run the whole setup in VMware Workstation. Because I’m a Mac user, I can’t run VMware Workstation but instead VMware Fusion. With […]

Wednesday July 25th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

VMware vCenter Server 5.0 update 1a now GA

You probably noticed this but VMware released vCenter server 5.0 Update 1a. I hear you think: “what’s the fuss about?”. Two things: The vCenter appliance replaced the IBM DB2 database with Postgress which reduces the virtual hardware footprint. Personally I think this is a great move! Several fixes for SvMotion / vDS / HA. This […]

Wednesday July 18th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

Suppress the ESXi ssh shell warning

I know most of you (like myself) have SSH enabled. I use ssh for esxtop. I know that the vMa or vCLI is the way to go with esxtop (of in that case resxtop) but running esxtop on the ESXi server itself is a lot easier, just because you don’t have to provide credentials every […]

Monday June 11th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »