Esxi

Well, a coworker of mine asked me about this. Since I didn’t know (yeah, I don’t know everything) I went to my trusted friend - Google - and searched for it. There seems to be a lot of confusion about this, so I thought I’d clarify this. I ended up putting a license to one of my hosts in vCenter. Yeah well, the host has a bit more memory than the allowed 32GB vRAM per Socket (the host has two sockets) - thus you’re allowed to have 64GB RAM if your host has two sockets.

Some of you may know, that VMware released vSphere 4.0 Update 1 yesterday. I took this as a reason, to finally wrap my head around booting the VMware ESXi installer from my PXE/TFTP box. Since VMware was kind enough to provide (a somewhat worthless) document, that explains how to extract the necessary files on Windows. But that quite doesn’t work with Linux – and VMware just states that you should be using mount and it’s option offset. ...