ESX Server 3.5 just wouldn’t install from my SATA DVD drive cause my motherboard doesn’t have a standard controller known to ESX. I bypassed this by installing ESX 3.5 from a temporary web server.
Luckily, a Macbook can whip up a web server in a few clicks.
Just go to System Preferences - Sharing, and check off [...]
Unlike Windows, the Mac doesn’t really have a nice SCP client like WinSCP. So we are left with the commandline or Fugu.
For those afraid of the unix command line, you can also use Fugu to scp files to and from the ESXi server.
Use the SCP option in the menu
Enter the appropriate details
Fugu isn’t as scary [...]
ESXi doesn’t really have a full blown service console like it’s bigger brother ESX but remants of it is still there. If you enable SSH, you will have a limited command line to do simple things like delete VM’s or use SCP to copy VM’s to and from the server.
Here’s how you enable it.
Press ALT+F1
Type [...]
Here’s how you copy files to the datastore on your ESXi server from a Mac.
Let’s say you want to copy an ISO file to your datastore on your ESXi server so you can install an OS with it.
Open up a Terminal window and type:
scp WinXP.iso root@192.168.1.33:/vmfs/volumes/vmstore/ISO
This will do just that. I average about 4MB/s writing [...]
I do a lot of VM stuff at work. In order to learn as much as I can I need an actual server at home to play with. I can’t afford a heavy duty server so I put one together with some parts I had lying around. I also bought some new hardware.
Here is [...]
