How to enable ssh in vSphere 4i

Posted on May 29th, 2009 in Tips, Virtualization, vSphere | 6 Comments »

To have SSH enable on vSphere 4i is always important and helpful when you require to troubleshoot any problem you may face. The way to get this done should similar as esx 3i.

  1. First, you press Alt + f1 then type “unsupported” and press enter.
  2. You will see the prompt for password after this. Key in the root password you had previously configure, and you will be able to log in to the service console.
  3. Follow by that, do a vi /etc/xinetd.conf and look for #ssh. Remove the # and save the file after this.
  4. Go to /sbin, and run this command ./services.sh restart
  5. Noted: If you still having problem with SSH access, please restart and it should be work.

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ESX 4 and ESX 4i is on the way out

Posted on October 31st, 2008 in Industry News, Virtualization | 5 Comments »

As what had been demo and shared during the VMworld 2008, most of you guys may aware that the ESX 4.0 or ESX 4i is on the way out and currently may still in development and beta test by VMware. Some of the features been demo example as the fault tolerance  which is an interesting features that most of us will be willing to have a look on it. Beside that, VMware is also ready to allow more than 4 vcpu per VM from this version. Although the HyperV and Xen had supported up to 32 virtual cpu per VM. With ESX4, this will bring VMware back on track with the necessary powerful environment to be run in virtualization world. If we need to run a VM with more than 8 Vcpu, I will think the best option of it will be running on physical servers instead of VM. Which could be consider not a good candidates to be virtualized.
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