esxi 4 management

deano · 5 Jun 2009 at 22:31

HI,

i've just tonight installed esxi 4 on a ML115 all went well. looking at managing the server it seems i need to use vsphere, which comes as a trial then i need to purchase it, i'm unable to find a free version. how do you manage esxi 4 ?

I've run vmware server 1 / 2 on centos for a few years, but was moving to esxi but seems a bit of a backwards step, unless i'm missing a small link to vsphere free version.

thanks for any assistance

walnuts · 5 Jun 2009 at 23:31

If you open internet explorer on your computer and type in your esxi server ip address you'll able to download small client to manage your esxi server with. It's a free tool and it's called something like VMware Infrastructure client.

deano · 6 Jun 2009 at 06:41

Hi,

thanks for the reply, when going to the page you describe I get a small blurb about vsphere and then a link to a download page on vmware's site, maybe i've downloaded vsphere 4 although I'm pretty sure it was Esxi i downloaded, will download esxi4 and reinstall.

thanks

Zaf · 6 Jun 2009 at 13:04

Have you been clicking the top link which I have circled? This will download the client striaght from your ESXi box, note the link in the bottom left

deano · 6 Jun 2009 at 13:14

thats the one i've clicked on the one circled.

not got it running at the moment, was going to reinstall to usb pen drive, also need to enable ssh access.

thanks for posting the image.

Zaf · 6 Jun 2009 at 13:20

Enabling SSH on 3.5 was really straight forward i've not tryed it on 4 yet so let us know how you get on

Cheers
Zaf

iaind · 6 Jun 2009 at 14:32

vSphere is a package of products which includes the hypervisor (ESXi or ESX), optional modules and management server (vcenter), amongst other stuff - so you havent installed vSphere!

If its in trial mode, you havent put the license key in...

deano · 7 Jun 2009 at 09:59

Hi,

now licensed it

to enable ssh appears to be the same as on esxi3

at console do

CTRL+ALT F1

at prompt enter unsupported
then enter root password

should now be at a prompt, edit /etc/inetd.conf

vi /etc/inetd.conf

once in vi enter /ssh

remove the hash from the front of the line by moving the cursor over it and pressing x this will remove the hash. then press ESC :x this will save and exit the file.

Restart vmware to enable ssh access or you can kill of the pid of inetd and restart it with /sbin/services.sh