2. Put the ESXi 4 Installable Edition in a USB thumbdrive, instructions can be gotten from <\/span><\/span><\/span>http:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/?p=830<\/a> . Or after you get the dd image, you can just use the linux dd to put it into your thumbdrive.<\/p>\n 3. Boot the ESXi 4 using the USB thumbdrive in the PE machine.<\/p>\n 4. Download the Dell OpenManage Offline Bundle and VIB for ESXi 4.0 from here<\/a>. (get the VIB for ESXi 4.0 update 1 and ESXi 4.1 here<\/a>) 5. Download and install <\/span><\/span><\/span>vSphere CLI from <\/span>http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/support\/developer\/vcli\/<\/a><\/p>\n 6. Navigate to the folder where you have installed the vSphere CLI utilities to execute the command : <\/span>vihostupdate.pl –server <IP address of ESXi 4 host> -i -b <path to Dell OpenManage Bundle><\/em>. You will need to wait 5 to 10 minutes for the command to complete. There’s no progress echo returned during the time.<\/span><\/p>\n 7. Enable the <\/span>CIM OEM providers as below :<\/span><\/p>\n 8. To check the sucessfull installation of the VIB. Login the ESXi console, Press Alt-F1 and type unsupported to login the command prompt, run “\/usr\/lib\/ext\/dell\/dataeng status<\/em>” to verify the Dell OpenManage service is running or not.<\/span> (edit \/etc\/inetd.conf<\/em> to enable ssh for remote console login). You can also run [If you are using Vista\/win7, UAC filtering for local accounts must be disabled by creating the following DWORD registry entry and setting its value to 1: [HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System] LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy<\/strong>]\u00a0 otherwise, you will get ” <\/em>Access is denied” when running “winrm create”]see <\/em>http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/aa384423.aspx Again, Later I found the win7(I upgraded my Vista!!) can’t install the OSA as it said that it need winrm 1.1 and win7 is running winrm 2.0, finally I install winrm1.1 ( WindowsXP-KB936059-x86-ENU<\/a>) on another XP and finish the rest<\/p>\n 9. Install OMSA 6.1 on my Vista machine, instructions getting from here<\/a>. Brief steps as below :<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n More reference : ESXi_VMWare_OM<\/a>, dell_esxi_om<\/a><\/p>\n Updated procedures for Open Manage 7.1\/Esxi 5.0\u00a0 and Windows 7 as OMSA web server<\/p>\n 1. To enable winrm on Windows 7 :<\/p>\n – Add a password to your administrator accunt if it does not have one.<\/p>\n – Run cmd\u00a0as an administrator\u00a0and issue “reg add HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System \/v LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy \/t REG_DWORD \/d 1 \/f”<\/p>\n – Reboot<\/p>\n – “winrm quickconfig”<\/p>\n – “winrm configsddl default”<\/p>\n – Get a pkcs12 certificate for your windows 7<\/p>\n – import it using mmc console (run mmc, add certificate snap-in), make sure you move your own CA certificates to appropate store winrm create winrm\/config\/Listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTPS @{Hostname=\u201d<host_name>\u201d;CertificateThumbprint=\u201d6e132c546767bf16a8acf4fe0e713d5b2da43013\u2033}<\/p>\n – Make sure your type the above command again in a administrator cmd without copy & paste<\/p>\n – run the Open Manage Server Administrator Web Console installer<\/p>\n 2. install the downloaded Open Manage 7.1 VIB on esxi 5.0<\/p>\n – esxcli software vib install –deport=<your vib><\/p>\n –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is just served as a working notes for me.<\/p>\n 1. 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