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VMware ESXi 4 Deployment on Dell PowerEdge Server with OpenManage 6.1 (updated for OpenManage 7.1 and windows 7 as client)

This is just served as a working notes for me.

1. Download VMware ESXi 4.0 Installable Edition from here:

2. Put the ESXi 4 Installable Edition in a USB thumbdrive, instructions can be gotten from http://staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~sfluk/wordpress/?p=830 . Or after you get the dd image, you can just use the linux dd to put it […]

Install ESXi 4 in USB thumb drive

Pls see this vminfo.nl-guide-create-an-esx-4i-usb-boot-key.pdf

Reference from http://www.vminfo.nl/?p=267

Install esxi 3 on a USB thumbdrive

See this vminfonl-guide-create-an-esx-3i-usb-boot-key

In short :

First get the following tools: 7-Zip(Free), WinImage(Demo) Download the ESXi ISO Open the ISO with 7-Zip Extract “install.tgz” Open “install.tgz” with 7-Zip Click on “install.tar” Browse to “usr\lib\vmware\installer\” Open “VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-103909.i386.dd.bz2″ Extract “VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-103909.i386.dd” Open WinImage and go to Disk, click on “Restore Virtual Harddisk Image on physical drive” Select a […]

Virtual Machine Guest tagging (VGT) (vlan trunk) in vmware server

To run dot1q vlan on the vmware guest under vmware server, you cannot do this with one NIC, you need at least two NICs. Host OS:

eth0 -> /dev/vmnet0 (for host OS’s management, uplink is vlan trunk) eth1 -> /dev/vmnet3 (for used by guest OS, uplink is vlan trunk)

eth0.4 -> /dev/vmnet4 (for HOST management […]

Vmware ESX server 3 VLAN

Virtual Switch Tagging (VST) VST uses 802.1q VLAN trunks and tagged traffic, as we’ve discussed already. The physical switch treats the ESX Server like any other switch, tagging traffic with the appropriate VLAN tags as it moves across the trunk into the ESX Server’s NICs. The ESX Server then uses the VLAN tags to direct […]

VMware Server 2.0.1 does not see 8 cores on Intel Core i7, only 4

What a pity. I have bought a no. of Dell Servers (PE T610) and workstation using Xeon 55xx. Hope this support will add the to the coming build asap. But will Vmware Server 1.0.x will have update?? I run most of the vms on VMware server 1.0.x wor.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1185430;jsessionid=315B9C298F77AFEE72965D4845D7AFD4

Unofficial VMware ESX Server Whitebox HCL

http://www.vm-help.com/

contain information you need to install ESXi on ordinary PC.