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VMware: How to create a bootable ESXi USB Stick with UNetbootin

September 3rd, 2010 Daniel Buonocore 1 comment

Last year we already posted about creating a bootable USB stick. In the last post we used WinImage to create the bootable USB stick to boot ESXi. Some time ago I found a tool which makes it much easier to create a bootable ESXi USB Stick. I am going to use UNetbootin to create bootable USB stick. You can download it here.

1. First connect the USB stick and start UNetbootinimage

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VMware ESX End-of-Life .. ESXi will be the future

August 31st, 2010 sanderdaems No comments
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VMware: VMotion CPU Compatibility Requirements for Intel Processors (1991)

June 8th, 2009 Daniel Buonocore No comments

Why am I unable to migrate virtual machines with VMotion across Intel processors?

In ESX 3.5 Update 2 and later, VMware recommends using Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) to eliminate many VMotion CPU compatibility problems. For more information on EVC, see KB 1003212.
 
To ensure system stability during migration with VMotion, VirtualCenter and vCenter Server require the source and target CPUs to be compatible. For more information on CPU compatibility requirements, see Basic System Administration for your version of VirtualCenter or vCenter Server, available from http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/.

If the source and target CPUs are incompatible for VMotion, you can:

  • Perform a cold migration (rather than a VMotion migration), thereby removing VMotion CPU requirements as an issue.
  • Remove VMotion compatibility constraints by modifying the default bit-mask used by VirtualCenter or vCenter Server. Note that some modifications discussed in this knowledge base article are neither supported nor recommended by VMware for production environments. In general, masking any CPU features intended for applications (such as SSE3) is not supported for VMotion. Use of EVC is recommended for migrating virtual machines across CPU generations.

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VMware: How to create bootable ESXi 4 USB stick

May 29th, 2009 sanderdaems 4 comments

Het wijkt weinig af van de configuratie van ESXi 3, toch even de tijd genomen om hier een documentje over te schrijven.

ESX 4i vereist minimaal 2048 MB aan geheugen

Download: VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0-164009.x86_64.iso

- Mount ISO

- Open: image.tgz

- Open: image.tgz\usr\lib\vmware\installer\VMware-VMvisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd.bz2

- Extract: VMware-VMvisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd naar C:\USB\

- Download: WinImage 8.1

- Ga naar: Disk > Restore Virtual Hard Disk image on physical drive..
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VMware: FastSCP 3.0 released

March 18th, 2009 sanderdaems No comments

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New Features:

- Full ESXi support;
- Improved file copy scheduling options;
- Improved user interface;

Release notes: http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-server/fastscp/documents/veeam_fastscp_3.0_release_notes.pdf

Download: http://www.veeam.com/esx-fastscp.html

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