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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
