Posts Tagged ‘Service Console’

ESX With Nortel Switch VLANs (2008-7-21)

For all of you out there that have recently started buying the Nortel layer 2-7 Switch Modules for your IBM BladeCenter H because they can be cheaper than there Cisco counterpart with more functionality, check out this article.
It points out how to resolve some of the issues that you may be having with VLANs and [...]

Enable SSH For ESXi (2008-7-17)

A great article on how to enable SSH for ESXi, which if you didn’t already know does not have a Service Console to speak of, but is built on the BusyBox distribution. However, it is still possible to remote manage it using SSH with a tweak here and there.
Here’s the great video that shows [...]

Rescan SAN Extremely Slow (2008-7-15)

I recently came across a problem whereby a Rescan SAN was taking an absolute age, like 15 minutes from the VI Client. Now I love the VI Client, but sometimes it just doesn’t give you enough information when it is doing things. To be fair most of the time the verbose information is [...]