The (un)Official VMWare ESXi thread.

Little_Crow said:
What other devices do you have that are actually consuming the media you want to share?

There isn't anything stopping you from just creating a fileshare on Windows 8 and having that available, or installing Plex Media Server and having that run as a service in the background.
In this case I don't think ESXi, or indeed any virtualisation, is what you need to best achieve your aim.
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Two TV´s, Laptops and mobile phones need full access to all media.

I'm thinking of seperating the functions later on, getting another microserver for example, and this is kind of a trial run to see if it's better.
 
vSphere 5.5 is out, and as is traditional with a vSphere launch it's broken something already - But this time, they've managed to do it even if you haven't chosen to upgrade.

If you run vSphere replicator 5.1, and have the appliance 'upgrade automatically' box ticked - it will automatically upgrade to the completely incompatible new version. You then have to reinstall replicator and start all your replication from scratch - Genius!

Anyone brave enough to update their home setup yet?
 
Little_Crow said:
Anyone brave enough to update their home setup yet?
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I have a couple of ESXi hosts at home. Last night I upgraded my "non-production" one. It currently hasn't got any VMs on it, but at least it boots into ESXi and can be managed from the client! So that's something. Tonight I'll test with the vCenter Appliance 5.5.
 
bear with me here, im just learning ESXi.

I have Windows Server 2012 (full) runnig on my N40L and there are 2 x 3TB drives setup as a Storage Pool. I want to use ESXi again on the N40L but would I be able to either virtuaize the storage pool or get vmware to see it another way? Im not using a raid card either.
 
pdw8 said:
bear with me here, im just learning ESXi.

I have Windows Server 2012 (full) runnig on my N40L and there are 2 x 3TB drives setup as a Storage Pool. I want to use ESXi again on the N40L but would I be able to either virtuaize the storage pool or get vmware to see it another way? Im not using a raid card either.
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Theoretically you could pass the 3TB drives as RDM devices to a Windows 2012 VM, but all accounts seem to point to 3TB RDM devices not working. This may have improved with ESXi 5.5.
 
Well i've install 5.5 on test dell PE2950 gen 3 and everythings running ok, tomorrow will have more time to play and test, but the new client says that v10 hardware vms are best managed through the web client.

Can't find anything on the net to say what the web client can do the viclient can't.
 
can't do it through the vsphere client that I know of unless your running update manager, but not sure 100%

I found 5.1 was a better upgrade from 5, and this should be better going by the included, but not sure how it will benefit homelabs as a lot of it seems to be based vcenter
 
Well upgraded from vcenter 5.1 to 5.5 and installed VUM 5.5 and downloaded the HP 5.5 ISO and deployed that throughout. Everythings working now fine, but had some little issues with SSO and it not adding the domain so was locked out. username was [email protected]l which I found odd, after a bit of looking round found the solution, needed to add the domain as an identity source and voila it let me back in.

The more i'm using the web client the better it feels, but it can be slow at times. Think this might be due to the server it's running on but can still use the vsphere client until you upgrade the hardware to v10 then you can't change the settings.

Early to say what the power savings are like as they're meant to be improved using deep C states, but will have to let it run for a while to figure it out.

All in all am impressed with it, and so much so i'm thinking of moving caravan to get into garage to install it in there.
 
Thought I'd have a go at upgrading my vCenter server today. Can't seem to get past the SSO upgrade though, keeps rolling back the install and not for any reasons that appear to be documented (yet). Bit frustrating.

Thinking of either a fresh Server 2012R2 build for vCenter or just using the new appliance.

Hassle! :rolleyes:
 
I put ESXi 5.5 on 3 nodes of a Dell C6100 and all seemed fine. I then moved the boot drive (with ESXi installed on it) to another node and installed to the original node again on a fresh drive (one nodes IPMI password is unknown hence the drive shuffling).

As this is the free Hypervisor and not a paid version I have to use the vSphere client. I ran up 4 copies which worked on two of the nodes fine but the 2 nodes I swapped the drives on kept loosing connection .... quite possibly not related to ESXi 5.5 specifically but quite odd, almost as if they both had the same IP address (they didn't, I set a static IP for eack node).

I created a CentOS VM, de-personalized it and then cloned it so there were 4 VMs on each of the two correctly working nodes and all started up fine.

Apart from the drive shuffling vSphere issues, no others seen so far. Not really given it a good test though.

Not sure about the comment above on 3TB drives and RDM not working but I am mounting an Infiniband 8TB share and mapping to it via RDM for my Win Server 2012r2 Essentials server and it si working fine.

RB
 
Does the ESXi installer generate a unique ID based on the MAC address or some other "unique" aspect of the original motherboard, and that's why you're having problems with those two hosts? I've never come across this (because I've never done it).
 
rotor said:
Does the ESXi installer generate a unique ID based on the MAC address or some other "unique" aspect of the original motherboard, and that's why you're having problems with those two hosts? I've never come across this (because I've never done it).
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This was my thought as well. Shame but not a show stopper.

RB
 
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