Deploy a Router in your ESX Environment
KB ID 0000182 Problem ESX is designed for building both enterprise class networks, and networks solely for test purposes. That’s all fine and dandy but what if you want turn on DHCP in your network but still have it connected to the outside world? Yes you could deploy a Windows server running Routing and Remote Access – as a router, but that seems to be overkill in the extreme. In the past I’ve done articles on...
VMware Error – Host {name} currently has no management network redundancy
KB ID 0000231 Problem Seen in Vmware ESX / Vmware Vsphere environments with both ESX and ESXi hosts. Solution As far as errors go this one’s pretty straight forward (and very common). I’ve seen it in ESX3 and VSphere networks, with high availability clusters. It’s complaining because there is only one physical NIC presented to the Service Console (I know ESXi does not have a service console, but it has a management...
ESX Server – Change The Hostname
KB ID 0000276 Problem Should you wish to change the hostname of your ESX server i.e. you have it on DHCP and it’s got the hostname of Terrys-Laptop or something from your DNS server. The option will be grayed out in the VI client. Solution 1. Log onto the ESX server terminal as the root user. 2. Issue the following command, esxcfg-advcfg -s <newname> /Misc/HostName 3. then reboot the server with the following command,...
ESX 4/5 – Grant Root User SSH Access
for ESXi click here KB ID 0000278 Problem ESX is built on Linux – and in the Linux environment, to root user is denied SSH access, there are valid security reasons for this, and you can SSH to the ESX box as a normal user and then issue the “su -” command to switch to root access. However, some of us still want to SSH in as root, here’s how to do it. Solution 1. Create a user on your ESX Server (Ensure the...
VMware ESX Error “cmd addnode failed for primary node: Internal AAM error”
KB ID 0000298 Problem Seen in a Virtual Center HA environment – even after selecting “Reconfigure for HA” on the ESX host. Errors: cmd addnode failed for the primary node:Internal AAM error – agent could not start – Unknown HA error. Cannot complete the configuration of the HA agent on the host – See the task details for additional information. Other HA configuration error. Solution 1. How...