Question about installing patches ESXi 4.1.0 (free version)
Hello,I have a question about available patches for the ESXi Host.How to decide which patch to install. Does the latest patch contain the earlier patches?Or do I have to install patches beginning with...
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The patches are rolled up so you just need to install the latest patch -
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thank you for your answer.my ESXi Host shows on top of the window "ESXi, 4.1.0, 348481Installing the lastest patch, does it increase the number "348481" ? Kind regards,Roland
View ArticleRe: How to increase ptys in ESXi host.
I do not have an answer for you but why so many SSH connections to your ESXi host? It is best practice to limit SSH connections
View ArticleRe: Question about installing patches ESXi 4.1.0 (free version)
That will change to the corresponding patsh level -
View ArticleESXI 4 server periodically rebooting
I have a server running Vmware ESXi 4.1.0 that's been in production for ~ 2 years. Lately the server has started to reboot every couple of days, causing all the VMs to restart, etc. I'm trying to track...
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If VMware detects issues it will display the purple screen of diagnostic (PSOD) rather then reboot. So you may need to check your hardware. Vendors like HP have ASR (Automatic Server Reboot) enabled in...
View ArticleESXi 4.1.0-Patch download via wget
Hi Forum, I found several posts regarding downloading patches via wget but none seems to help with my issue.I used wget for quite some time now to download the patches like thiswget...
View ArticleRe: How to increase ptys in ESXi host.
Hi weinstein5, Thanks for your reply, we have about 100 VMs running in an ESXi host, each VM has a serial port, we expect to connect these serial ports from remote host via named pipe. We try...
View ArticleRe: How to increase ptys in ESXi host.
ESXi is Posix OS, It usage tiny ssh, I don't think it can go beyond this... Still I will try and update ..
View ArticleRe: Best way to connect a SAS Tape drive to a Guest?
This is just an update to let you all know that the configuration I installed is still working fine, now with the VMware kernel upgraded to ESXi 4.1 (This was done before ESXi 5 came out, hardware...
View ArticleRe: esxi 4.1 and tape library
I have a slightly similar issue with a tape drive connected to ESXi 4.1, though mine is SAS and with no media changer robot. If I boot up the host and tape-using VM with no tape loaded in the drive,...
View ArticleRe: Question about sharedPolicyRefCount setting
Same here. Came across while checking my host profiles today. I have 15 Hosts with the Value set to 100. Any updates?
View ArticleRe: How to increase ptys in ESXi host.
Rather than relying on the physical serial ports on an ESXi host because I do not think it will support enough for a 100 VMs I would look at using a network based serial port hub like this from Digi -...
View ArticleError connecting to server
I'm attempting to install a bundle from my workstation to an esxi server but not having much luck with vcli... Another co-worker ran the same command on his pc and it works so the issue is on my pc but...
View ArticleEnable VT-x switch for HOST
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop 64Bit LTS guest in my ESXi 4.1 as my development environment. For some reason, I would like to create virtual machines inside it to run some emulators but seems like...
View ArticleRe: Error connecting to server
Welcome to the Community - are you able to ping 172.16.234.21 from your workstation? are you able to SSH to 172.16.234.21 from you workstation?
View ArticleRe: Enable VT-x switch for HOST
ESX 4.1 does not virtualize VT-x. ESX 5.0 does, but the feature is unsupported. The first release of ESX to support virtualization of VT-x is ESX 5.1. See Running Nested VMs for more information.
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