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

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

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.

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