Category: VMware

Creating a PXE boot for ESXi 4.1 with a kickstart installation

For the VMware course I teach for Ictivity Training VMware ESXi server have to be deployed on a regular basis. In the passed I have made a kickstart installation for ESX witch could be used on a USB stick during the boot of the DVD. Now that we’re upgrading the VMware courses to vSphere ESXi […]

Thursday December 9th, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »

How to migrate from vSphere ESX to ESXi

Now that VMware has announced that vSphere ESX 4.1 will be the latest version that will be having a Service Console. They also annouced that customers who are running vSphere ESX should upgrade to vSphere ESXi in 8 to 12 months. In this post I will discribe the (non-technical) procedure how to migrate. Non technical […]

Wednesday November 3rd, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »

How to upgrade ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.1

I have done this a couple of times for my customers so I thought to document it for you. In this senario I have 1 ESX1 4.0 host who I want to upgrade to ESX1 4.1. For this task I’m going to use the vihostupdate utility on the VMware Management Assistant (vMA). First thing to […]

Friday October 15th, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »

VMworld 2010 Copenhagen

Yes, I’m proudly to say that this will be the first time that I will attend VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen! A couple of day’s ago I made my schedule and planned the evening events 🙂 for next week. I will try to blog every day about the session I will follow. The main interess is […]

Friday October 8th, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »

apache2 could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:631 after vSphere upgrade

After the upgrade from vSphere 4.0x to vSphere 4.1 or ESXi 4 to ESXi4.1 apache on a OES 2 server wouldn’t start with the error apache2 could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:631 As you all probably know TCP port 631 is for IPP print, or for us Novell guy’s iPrint. iPrint is started with apache […]

Wednesday September 29th, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »