After upgrading my VMware vSphere management infrastructure to latest version 6.5, I decided to upgrade the last part Esxi server in my lab to version 6.5, While Upgradation/installation I didn't find any change or difference, All the steps are same as earlier shown in the article I wrote PART 1 :…
Blog posts : "ESXi Installation and configuration"
ESXI 6.5 UPGRADE INSTALLATION AND UI HTML WEB CLIENT
November 25, 2016 10:26PM
ESXI VIB SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ERROR
October 27, 2016 10:53AM
One of my Dell server was facing faulty drive issue, which I can see in vsphere client > esxi server on the hardware status tab. To send the Dset report logs to Dell support it requires Dell openmanage tool installed or view additional information (As my server was older one it is missing some new f…
PART 1 : INSTALL ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN CONTROLLER ON VMWARE WORKSTATION
June 9, 2016 10:36PM
Active Directory (AD) is an essential and must have in your lab, Even if you have single Domain Controller (DC) in your domain its enough for lab environment testing, This LDAP server can be used and integrated as a SSO server (single sign on) in multiple and different applications, Same Active dir…
RESOLVED : FAIL TO DEPLOY OVF TEMPLATE - TASK CANCELED BY USER
June 6, 2016 11:55PM
Recently I setup my complete lab from scratch, and whenever I do it either I face some new issues or the old problems I faced earlier, now in this article I am going to document on the one of the old problem I always face in absence of DNS server. As my complete lab is on VMWare Workstation, and VMs…
RESOLVED : ADDING VIRTUAL HARD DISK GRAYED OUT ON VIRTUAL MACHINE
June 6, 2016 10:46PM
Today I received one of the escalated task from my junior to extend existing virtual hard disk on one of the VMware VM using vSphere client, I explored VM settings by right clicking, but found virtual HDD settings are grayed out and it is disabled. At first it looks like Virtual Machine Hardware Ve…
INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING ESXI EMBEDDED WEB CLIENT
June 6, 2016 10:12AM
VMWare has officially announced they will be discontinuing vSphere desktop client in their future version releases of vSphere software. Henceforth they want to promote HTML5 web client . For more and detailed information you can check this check this official blog here. Currently vCenter has its in…
PART 3 : ACCESSING STANDALONE ESXI SERVER IN HOME LAB USING VSPHERE CLIENT
June 5, 2016 07:46PM
PART 1 : INSTALLING ESXI ON VMWARE WORKSTATION HOME LAB
PART 2 : CONFIGURING ESXI ON VMWARE WORKSTATION HOME LAB
PART 3 : ACCESSING STANDALONE ESXI SERVER IN HOME LAB USING VSPHERE CLIENT
ESXi server is installed and configured its time to login into GUI client. I am going to use classic vSpher…
PART 2 : CONFIGURING ESXI ON VMWARE WORKSTATION HOME LAB
June 4, 2016 11:07PM
PART 1 : INSTALLING ESXI ON VMWARE WORKSTATION HOME LAB
PART 2 : CONFIGURING ESXI ON VMWARE WORKSTATION HOME LAB
PART 3 : ACCESSING STANDALONE ESXI SERVER IN HOME LAB USING VSPHERE CLIENT
ESXi Server is installed and ready on VMWare Workstation for further configuration, as there is no DHCP, it…
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