Enabling SSH via OEM TGZ on ESXi 4.0
By Osterberg
| Aug 21, 2009
| esxi
Recently I’ve replaced my server at home with a new one.
I installed ESXi on a USB stick and enabled the SSH as described here
Then updated it via vSphere Host Update Utility 4.0.
After rebooting ESXi the SSH server wasn’t working. Doing less /etc/inetd.conf revealed that the SSH server was reset to default (turned off).
Googling this, it seems that ESXi now tries to set the defaults on various things when rebooting.
How to Create Lager Drives Than 256 GB in ESXi 4.0
By Osterberg
| Jun 6, 2009
| esxi, hdd
Recently I’ve tried to create a harddisk for a virtual machine in VMware that I wanted to be 600 GB in size.
I ran the “Add Hardware” wizard in vSphere Client and selected the harddisk, typed 600 GB as disk size and !PLONK!
hmmm, it defaults to 256 GB.
Googletime!
As I now learned the max size of the disk or rather the max size of the VMDK is directly dependant of the block size of the VMFS partition.
Enable the unsupported SSH Server in ESXi 4.0
By Osterberg
| Jun 3, 2009
| esxi
At the console of the ESXi host, press ALT+F1 to access the command shell.
Enter unsupported in the console and hit enter. You will not see what you type.
If you did it right you should see a fairly common linux command promt like: ~#
Edit the file /etc/inetd.conf. Remove the # in front of the line that starts with # SSH.