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 […]
A new KB was released yesterday (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1033696), in which I noticed something interesting. ESXi Installable creates a 4 GB Fat16 partition on the target device during installation if there is sufficient space, and if the device is considered Local. This made me prick up my ears, as only a couple of weeks ago I was […]