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Don’t get stuck in the IT past

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Watch what happens when you try to buy a cloud solution from the wrong company.

Microsoft pokes fun at VMware with “VMlimited man“.

Activate SSH on VMware ESXi 5.0

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As in VMware ESXi 4.1 you can enable or activate SSH on VMware ESXi 5.0 very simple. VMware ESXi 5.0 is also known as VMware vSphere Hypervisor.

  1. On the start screen press F2 for “Customize System”
    VMware ESXi 5.0 enable SSH
  2. Login with the local password
    VMware ESXi 5.0 enable SSH
  3. Select and enter Troubleshooting Options
    VMware ESXi 5.0 enable SSH
  4. Click on Enable SSH to activate SSH on your VMware ESXi 5.0 host
    VMware ESXi 5.0 enable SSH
  5. After you have pressed the ENTER key you will now see that SSH is enabled
    VMware ESXi 5.0 activate SSH

Activate SSH on ESXi 4.1 via vSphere Client

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Some months ago I wrote a post about how to activate SSH on a ESXi 4.1 via console. But you can also activate SSH with the vSphere Client.

  1. Login to the vSphere Client
  2. Click on the configuration tab
    VMware vSphere Client ESXi
  3. Click on Security profile
  4. VMware vSphere Client ESXi Click on Properties
    VMware vSphere Client ESXi
  5. Click on Remote Tech Support (SSH)
    VMware vSphere Client ESXi
  6. Click on Options and choose the startup policy and click start
    VMware vSphere Client ESXi
  7. Now you can verify that the daemon shows as running in the Services Properties window

Activated SSH on ESXi 4.1

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In VMware ESXi 4.0 you needed a small a trick to activated SSH on your Host. In VMware ESXi 4.1 its very easy to activate SSH.

  1. Press F2 to Customize System Settings
  2. VMware ESXi 4.1 Navigate to Troubleshooting Options
    VMware ESXi 4.1 Troubleshooting Options
  3. Now you can enable Remote Tech Support (SSH)
    VMware ESXi 4.1 enable SSHVMware ESXi 4.1 enable SSH

And by the way, installing ESXi in VMware Fusion on my Mac is really awesome for presentation and testing.

Here is a link how you do this with VMware ESXi 4.0

Install HP Management Tools on ESX 3.5

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Just a little HowTo for the installation of the HP Management Tools (HP Management Agents for VMware ESX Server 3.x) on an ESX 3.5 Server.

  • First copy the hpmgmt-8.2.0-vmware3x.tar (download link) on your ESX Server in an user directory. You may use WinSCP on your Windows machine.
  • unpack the .tar file. type “tar -xf hpmgmt-8.2.0-vmware3x.tar” (you may use PuTTY to connect on the ESX Server Console form a remote Windows machine)
  • Now start the installer file which should be in the directory /hpmgmt/820/. To run this file you should login as root (type “su” in the console and login with the root password). Now type “./installvm820.sh –install” to install the HP Management Agents.
  • The Installer will ask you to open the port 2381 (HP Managment Homepage) and 2301 (HP Insight Manager).
  • After the this Setup you can login on the HP Managment Homepage on the ESX Server (https://esxserver:2381)