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• Advice on ESXi 4 USB install

  Hi all

  I would like to know if there is something I should be paying attention to install ESXi 4 on a good brand USB 2.0 stick?

  I wonder if it's actually a good way to go into production serverconsidering if the ESXi generating logfile and execute read and write can shorten the life of USB drive which can be very harmful.

  CMIIW, the only benefits making this installare USB:

  1. more than disk space available for the local data store

  2 can move USB around different host if necessary

  Thank you

  Kind regards

  AWT

  ESXi does not work file log. Use an external syslog server for this.

  1. you can install ESXi on USB on the server without local disks - that you would save at least $ 500 for the blade HP (SATA 2 less expensive disks) server that you can spend on the RAM.

  2 but there is a delicate part that you should be aware. ESXi first start taking Mac of the NIC and then don't ask NIC, so if you move the key USB ESXi server will continue to use old Mac until you remove / add all the cards.

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• Another corrupt ESXi USB flash drive

  I have a USB flash drive as boot ESXi disk get corrupted, I thought it was a fluke, so I threw away the USB key and reinstalled ESXi on a new USB flash drive. Well, after a little more than a year, this flash drive has been corrupted as well as ESXi follow the start-up procedure.

  Are consumers just don't required to act as a start-up for ESXi readers forever on the servers of USB flash drives? My actual VMs are on the hard disks on the server so I guess that the USB flash drive was not getting a lot of work too far than go of reads/writes. I know major integrators offer ESXi built in running off some flash internal drive so I assumed that flash was reliable. What is the difference between these types of enterprise flash drives and consumer flash drives? Or it is just a risk for all flash drives and it is preferable to install ESXi for one SSD or HARD drive?

  I always suggest installing ESXi on a flash drive of business as sellers to test these players for the highest reliability and performance while consumer flash drives are not tested.

  Consumer grade flash drive are low grade MLC (multi-level cell) based provide the alternative and low-cost storage adequate all-in-business level kitsuse flash drive boast of a higher level of performance and more

  endurance of MLC

• [not resolved] At boot esxi USB key, but the key is broken, how to recover?

  Hi all

  I installed a host vmware esxi 3.5 starts using a USB key.

  My problem is that the key has been broken.

  I have reinstall a new key with the same version of esxi 3.5 and assigned the same IP address to the host.

  Should what steps I follow to host my comments towards the top and run again?

  Thanks a lot for your help.

  It's not good

  Are you sure that your storage space is not the original problem?

  If you start from USB, and the key fails, ESXi will continue to function until you restart the box. ESXi RAM tracks

  If your storage space is 100%, you can try the following

  Advanced settings under configuration if I remember correct:

  EnableResignature change to 0

  Replace disallowSnapshotLun with 0 as well.

  A new analysis of the storage card at least 2 times

  Change the values back to 1 if it works

  Concerning

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• MacBook Pro not recognizing the Cougar USB install

  I have a Macbook Pro 5.2-17 "retina display. I replaced the hard drive and I am installing Mountain Lion. The hard drive is not an SSD. It's a 500 GiB Western Digital SATA, partitioned with TPG and JHFS +.

  I started by installing El Capitan, because that's all I had. The installer of El Capitan is on an external USB drive that is partitioned. When I boot using the down Option key, the C key or command-R, the installer of El Capitan is recognized. I installed El Capitan, created an installer of Mountain Lion on a different partition on the same external USB drive and erased El Capitan the internal hard drive. When I boot on the USB setup of Mountain Lion is not recognized. Setup of El Capitan is recognized correctly. Why not available in boot manager during startup? When I got El Capitan installed, the two partitions have been recognized very well when I plugged in the USB. Both were mounted and appears on the desktop. So I know that the problem is not the USB key, or 2.0 or 3.0, or the recovery partition because I erased the disc and the recovery partition is no longer exist. How can I get the installer of Mountain Lion to be recognized at startup?

  I did the command Option P R, NVRAM reset several times. No joy. The only partition recognized at boot time is the installer of El Capitan.

  I want to level back to Mountain Lion because it is less intrusive than El Capitan and will be more familiar to the person who will use this computer.

  Oh, and more than two elements. When I start the installer for OS X from the external USB drive, I gives me three options on where to install TO - install OS X El Capitan, install OS X Lion mountain and Macintosh HD. Therefore the partition setup of Mountain Lion is recognized, but not as an installer to start from. Although when I plugged in the USB port when El Capitan was installed he showed as an installer Mountain Lion.

  Also, there is NO option to choose where to install FROM. If I have two installation programs, I have two choices of installation?

• uninstall the wireless printer. Try to install using connection USB installed on a network.

  Try to install HP Officejet 6500 wireless by using the USB connection. Installed on a network.  How do I uninstall and let Windows identify as new material on a USB connection?

  Turn off the broadcast of your wireless router signal. Shut down the PC. Menu using the printer configuration to remove or change the SSID. Then turn the printer off and connect it to a USB port (this implies that all the necessary software has been installed). Now turn on the computer and turn on the printer. Once the printer has been detected the turn on your router.

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• Pantech UML290 4 G USB install not on Windows 8?

  I have a Pantech UML290 4 G USB modem and it will not install on Windows 8. Is there a patch or an update of the pilot expected?

  Hello

  Try the site of Pantech:
  http://www.pantechusa.com/phones/uml290_4g_usb_modem
  Carlos

• How to recover from the failure of a with ESXi USB flash drive?

  I have ESXi 5.5 running on a 16 GB USB flash drive.  The system itself has a RAID card and drives mirrored where all virtual machines are stored, so it seems to me that a critical point of weakness is the drive itself.  If die ESXi itself running flash player, is there a procedure to recover the virtual machines on the disks?  Or should I keep a backup of my drive as well?

  1. How to restore the operating system assuming that the flash drive fails? If I reinstalled ESXi on a new drive of the same thumb, would see the VMware VMs existing on the hard drives of the server? Or is the process of discovery of the relatively painless existing virtual machines?

  If your flash drive goes down, will not be a problem that you have your virtual machines without danger on the separate data store in the locally attached storage drives. all you got to do is to reinstall ESXi host, he will be happy to see the existing VMFS data store and browse this data store where are stored the re-save you and virtual machines in the inventory.

  See also changes following KB to make the backup of your ESXi as operating system configuration and when you change the configuration at the time of the failure of ESXi, you don't have to worry about re-configuarting it

  VMware KB: Backup and restore configuration using the vSphere command-line Interface and vSphere PowerCLI ESXi

  1. How can I maintain redundancy for my USB failure? Can I have two drives connected and automatically backup flash / mirror the first hard drive to the second?

  This is not possible (I never tried myself) If you use an external flash drive, but let's say that you have any material to the specific provider giving this feature as

  DELL IDSDM http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/poweredge-idsdm-whitepaper-en.pdf

  or another supplier giving a similar feature, then it is quite possible to mirror. Otherwise, the best option is take config. backup using KB, I mentioned in the first answer.

• 5.5 ESXi USB devices and host.

  Hello community,

  I'm just trying to connect a TOUGH USB drive that is connected to the host to a guest operating system and failed!

  The USB device lists via 'lsusb' on the host, but I have no idea how to do to connect it to a guest.

  I got tired by the "Parameters" and "Add Hardware" through the vSphere client and the USB device does not appear!

  If I use the "Connect USB devices" button in vSphere client, I can only connect USB devices connected to the management station.

  Is it possible to connect USB devices connected to the host?

  I hope you can help me!

  Kind regards

  Matthias.

  I just follow advice of jkopp on the change of version vhardware th in thread 5.5 of the ESXi hypervisor free Web Console .

  I just changed to v9 and was able to add my USB HDD to the guest host, so if you have the same problem as me, just spent in HW version 9 and then, you are able to connect devices USB connected host!

  Kind regards

  Matthias

• ESXi 5 install storage Dell T620 No.

  Hello

  When you try to install ESXi 5 on my new T620 Dell I have no storage available to install to.   I've deleted and recreated my virtual drive RAID 10, but that did not help.   It doesn't show either all remote storage.   The compatibility list seems to suggest that this server should not give me no problem.  Perc is a PERC H710.

  Has anyone experience this problem?   What can I try?    Thank you.

  The documentation Dell says that it supports 5.0U1 and 4.1

  http://www.Dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/Dell-PERC-H710-spec-sheet.PDF

• Postazioni Xp con uso Esxi USB e the solution?

  Salve a tutti, ho he following problema:

  Ho need di does nelle macchine comments (max 8) xp professional my mi serve poter utilizzare the loro porta usb per poter utilizzare dei lettori card reader.

  Ho injected often vmware server for Windows with large soddisfazione my non mi allows di utilizzare usb comments sui.

  ESXi lo Può fare?

  Qualcuno ha sul fatto di creare esperienza da zero una configurazione server custom più economica possibile?

  Grazie a tutti

  Stefano

  My e proprio quello che ti ho spiegato! You can choose di:

  -connettere al Server ESXi periferiche e pubblicarle sulle VM tramite usb usb-transfer

  -use a usb Ethernet come quelli di digi hub

  I casi pubblichi in both the usb periferica went che stai ospitando dentro VMware XP virtual machine.

  Ciao,.

  Luca.

• ESXi USB, what happens if you then remove the USB boot?

  Hello

  Someone in our team IT wants to use ESXi 5 bootable, i.e. start an ESXi host for a 2 GB USB flash drive in order to save the cost of buying the hard drives local to a RAID set.

  I know there are a few downsides to this, but one thing I wanted to know more precisely, it is what happens to the ESXi if you remove the USB or the USB drive goes down, while the host is running. The army continues to operate, as it will be charged the ESXi image in memory? Or it will fail if it cannot see the USB as it initialized from?

  Thank you!

  ESXi will work on - running some virtual machines are not affected.

  Usually, there should be no problem to plug new - but I have seen cases where the system does not start after a rough unplug - so avoid it.

• ESXi scripted install question KS.cfg

  I am trying to build a test script environment install esxi 4.1.  I can't find or get the default KS.cfg file.  The doco shows the location as /etc/vmware/weasel/ks.cfg but I can't find the file.  How to extract the image to simply get this boot file?  Why didn't they just put in the installed product as before?

  The default KS.cfg matches that in the documentation of ESXi on page 34 - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_esxi_i_vc_setup_guide.pdf

  You can just copy that since this is the exact even if you were to check out it. The default KS.cfg is also embedded in a python script in the iso ESXi 4.1, but you'll need to extract to ienviron.vgz. Copying files to a UNIX/Linux or even the ESX host and make sure that put you it in a new directory temporarily.

  You will then do the following:

  tar -zxvf ienviron.vgz
  

  Now you should see 3 new directories created: etc, lib and usr and if you cat out the file following, you will also see where the default KS.cfg is created from:

  cat usr/lib/vmware/weasel/scripted/cursed_ui.py
  
  usr/lib/vmware/weasel/scripted/__init__.py0000444000031100003110000000000011374626617017321 0visor  mtsmtsusr/lib/vmware/weasel/scripted/grammar.py0000555000031100003110000010310111374626617017122 0visor  mtsmts¤sr/lib/vmware/weasel/scripted/preparser.py0000555000031100003110000015625711374626617017734 0visor  mtsmts,usr/lib/vmware/weasel/scripted/kickstartfile.py0000555000031100003110000000627511374626617020521 0visor  mtsmts
  usr/lib/vmware/weasel/scripted/scriptwriter.py0000555000031100003110000002747511374626617020446 0visor  mtsmtsusr/lib/vmware/weasel/scripted/ui.py0000555000031100003110000001602511374626617016367 0visor  mtsmtsHusr/lib/vmware/weasel/scripted/util.py0000555000031100003110000000303411374626617016761 0visor  mtsmtsfusr/lib/vmware/weasel/task_progress.py0000555000031100003110000002630411374626617017072 0visor  mtsmtsnusr/lib/vmware/weasel/singleton.py0000555000031100003110000000300111374626617015651 0visor  mtsmtsusr/lib/vmware/weasel/thin_partitions.py0000444000031100003110000000652511374626617017110 0visor  mtsmts¤usr/lib/vmware/weasel/usbmedia.py0000555000031100003110000000526211374626617015501 0visor  mtsmts²usr/lib/vmware/weasel/tidy.py0000555000031100003110000000246511374626617014677 0visor  mtsmts¾usr/lib/vmware/weasel/userchoices.py0000555000031100003110000003704711374626617016254 0visor  mtsmtsÄusr/lib/vmware/weasel/users.py0000555000031100003110000001054311374626617015172 0visor  mtsmtsusr/lib/vmware/weasel/util/0000755000031100003110000000000011374626617014364 5visor  mtsmtsusr/lib/vmware/weasel/util/_util.py0000555000031100003110000004720011374626617016144 0visor  mtsmtsusr/lib/vmware/weasel/util/__init__.py0000555000031100003110000000051011374626617016700 0visor  mtsmtsfusr/lib/vmware/weasel/util/regexlocator.py0000555000031100003110000000234411374626617017650 0visor  mtsmtshusr/lib/vmware/weasel/visor_cdrom.py0000444000031100003110000000453011374626617016525 0visor  mtsmtsnusr/lib/vmware/weasel/workarounds.py0000555000031100003110000001061311374626617016571 0visor  mtsmtsxetc/chkconfig.db0101644000031100003110000000041311374626615012134 0visor  mtsmts#
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  # Choose the first disk (in channel/target/lun order) to install onto
  autopart --firstdisk --overwritevmfs
  
  # The install media is in the CD-ROM drive
  install cdrom
  
  # Set the network to DHCP on the first network adapter
  network --bootproto=dhcp --device=vmnic0
  
  # A sample post-install script
  %post --unsupported --interpreter=python --ignorefailure=true
  import time
  stampFile = open('/finished.stamp', mode='w')
  stampFile.write( time.asctime() )
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• Problems with the data store when installting ESXi USB

  I had problems getting free ESXi reliable running.  I am able to install a flash drive fine and initially everything works and I am able to create virtual machines.  Upon the first connection to vSphere, told me that there is no data store, so I create one on my controller LSI 400 GB RAID1 8308elp without problem.  However, once I reboot the server ESXi I lose the data store.  When I check my warehouses under Configuration it is listed.  At this point, if I try to create the data store, yet once I get "Error during the configuration of the host".  I read about using fdisk from the console when people have had this problem but there is no access console in the free version.  Is that what I can do to work around this problem?

  Right in the HCL... SAS/SATA-RAID of the lists for older versions, SCSI for the current version... Search within i/o devices for "LSI 8308elp '...

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• Migration ESXi server: install vCenter Server 2.0?

  We are currently migrating to VMware Server 2.0 to ESXi 4 (local storage only execution Essentials).  At this moment we have (2) host VMware Server 2.0.  As part of our move, we will deploy a new server (host) for ESXi and need to install vCenter, so we can start (convert virtual machines, etc.).  The plan will be to move all production of VMS Server 2.0 to the new host ESXi 4 in a piecemeal fashion and then once's done it install ESXi 4 on one of the host VMware Server 2 old servers.

  Because we cannot do this big bang, my question is: can we install vCenter as a VM on the server 2.0 while we are migrating to ESXi?

  Once our move to ESXi is complete (end of the game, we have 2 ESXi hosts and 1 host Vmware server 2), can we then convert and move the VM vCenter to one of the new ESXi servers?   Sort of a game of shuffle, but I see no other choice and I hope it works well.  Comment on reviews would be great.  Thank you...

  Why don't you just create a new virtual machine in the box of ESXi, installing vCenter, and then start the conversion of your VM from VMware Server ESXi? It is the method I would use.

  In case you're not aware - you can always create virtual machines on ESXi without vCenter.