I’ve published a number of ESXi specific posts recently.  However, I realize that I tend to publish these at weekends or late in the evening, which isn’t optimal for most readers coming from Planet V12n or Twitter.  Sorry, that’s just when I have free time (yes, I’ve heard of delayed publishing in WordPress, but I’m […]

I’ve recently been thinking about the practicalities of PXE booting ESXi servers.  Sounds great, but how do you make this work in a typical environment? Using trunked connections on ESXi hosts is very much common place.  It’s likely that your ESXi’s Management Network connection, which by default will be your first onboard NIC (vmnic0), is […]

This is third post in as many days, regarding the ESXi scratch partition – here is the first and the second. Aaron Delp posed the question – what should be a “best practice” regarding this? Should we all run around making changes?  Personally, I think that at the very least you should go out and […]

In my last post, I looked at how the ESXi installer may not create a scratch partition if it identifies the local disks as remote during the install.  I had stated that the following was good check to see if you had a scratch partition setup: cat /etc/vmware/locker.conf However after a bit more testing down […]