PXEBoot the VMware ESXi installer

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:19:46 +0000

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.

Dell PowerEdge 1855, DRAC/MC, firmware updates, telnet and csr's

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:39:38 +0000

Today I played a bit with our PE Chassis, or more specifically the DRAC/MC (remote management console). One of the things I’ve been experiencing was that the DRAC/MC was rather slow when browsing on the web interface (as in waiting a minute for the jnlp for the KVM to download). So I went ahead, fired up net-misc/atftp on my notebook, put the firmware update provided by Dell in the TFTPROOT and executed this in my telnet session on the DRAC/MC:

Tftp on BAFM

PXEBoot the VMware ESXi installer

Dell PowerEdge 1855, DRAC/MC, firmware updates, telnet and csr's