Licensing ESX 4.x, ESXi 4.x, and vCenter Server 4.x

Licensing ESX 4.x, ESXi 4.x, and vCenter Server 4.xSymptoms Unable to remove ESX 4.x/ESXi 4.x from Evaluation Mode Unable to upload the license file for vSphere Unable to connect vSphere 4.x to vCenter Server Unable to activate vSphere license-vmware-productsPurposeThis article provides steps to add, assign, remove, unassign, and change the licenses of ESX 4.x, ESXi 4.x,...

Downloading and licensing vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)

Downloading and licensing vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)Its a Freeware Software to Download PurposeThis article provides steps for downloading and licensing ESXi 4.x.Resolution Downloading ESXi 4.xTo download and activate ESXi 4.x:Navigate to http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_hypervisor_esxi/4. Click Download next to VMware...

Setup VMware vSphere to Access ISCSI SAN

Setup VMware vSphere to Access ISCSI SAN In this example I am setting up a VMWare ESXi 4.1 server to access a VMware iSCSI SAN using the VMWare iSCSI software initiator. The server is connected as shown below Enable the software iSCSI initiator Note the vmhba number of the software...

Useful VMware Commands

Useful VMware Commands Restart management services:Service mgmt-vmware restart Find DNS servers:Cat /etc/resolv.conf Check ESX version:esxupdate query Restart vmware management:service vmware-vpxa restartservice mgmt- vmware restart vdf –hview partion info (disk space etc) ls –larthlist files in a directory in by GB, MB (easy to see file sizes) ls –larth *delta*as above but only...

Deploy an ESXi via Dell Unified Server Configurator

Deploy an ESXi via Dell Unified Server Configurator In the below example I am using the Dell Unified Server Configurator to deploy and operating system – in this case ESXi 4.1When booting up the server press the F10 key to enter “System Services” This will launch the Dell Unified...