When trying to open the console of a VM using the vSphere Webclient with the VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5, I received the following error: “can’t establish a connection to the server at vcsa.vanzanten.local: 7331”. It took me some searching through the VMware KB and finally found it. I’m posting it here merely for my […]
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Setting logfile location, swap file, SNMP and vmkcore partition in ESXi
With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1 it has become even more apparent that the next vSphere release will only have an ESXi version. This isn’t world shocking news since VMware had announce this already at VMworld 2009, but somehow many have been triggered to finally make the switch and install ESXi on their ESX […]
Is there enough support for ESXi already
We all know that the future version of vSphere will probably only be the ESXi version. At least, this is what VMware’s aim is for ESX5. Because it is wise to already get used to ESXi now to get more familiar with the absence of the Service Console, I was trying to switch my home lab of three ESX […]