ESX – Zoyinc

Open VMware remote console from url

If like me you run a lot of stuff in ESX, then you will know that you can open up the console in the remote This is very handy and opens up VMware Player connected to your VM in ESX. This gives a much better experience than using it through a browser: As handy as… read more…
Enabling copy and paste in ESX VM

I really wanted copy and paste between Windows and VMs running in ESX. This is what finally worked for me. Note this was for ESX “6.0.0 Update 3 (Build 5050593)”. I was using VMware Workstation 16 Player “16.1.2 build-17966106” on Windows 10. Also, this only worked when I ran “Console | Launch remote console”. It… read more…
Restored OKD Cluster Not Starting

I run my OKD cluster on a set of VMs in VMware ESXi. My backups consist of shutting down all VMs and then copying them somewhere else – so full shutdown and backup. The cluster setup was done using the steps outlined in OKD 4.5 small cluster on ESX. This has worked well and I… read more…
Enable ssh in and out of ESX

By default an ESX server doesn’t allow you to ssh to it or ssh from it to another host. Being able to ssh to an ESX host can be very useful to do base unix functions including moving files around and so on. Being able to ssh out and in particular to another ESX host… read more…
ESX boot hangs – stuck on Initializing IOV

I got the following error when booting ESXi 6 from a USB key but I believe the same problem is possible for other scenarios. So what I am talking about is you start ESX and it does the initial phase with the progress line along the top and then it floods the screen with yellow… read more…
Port-based VLAN on managed switch to ESXi

This exercise is driven by a need to connect my MythTV’s 3 HDHomeRun network tuners to my MythTV server. This is filled with various challenges:My MythTV runs in a VM on a VMware ESXi 6.0 server The ESXi server only has one network adaptor, NIC. Experience has shown that the HDHomeRuns are more reliable on… read more…
SonicWall VLAN to private physical interface

I had a Windows 10 VM, running inside VMware ESXi 6.0, which I needed to connect to the laptop as shown in the above diagram. In addition I needed both the laptop and VM to be on an isolated LAN which meant neither the VM nor laptop to should be able to access the internet… read more…
Run ESX from USB on old HP desktop

I have running VMware ESXi servers for years, sometimes at work on servers but recently at home on a whole bunch of older desktop machines. Not too many problems and when I did have problems it was usually about an unsupported network adaptor. Just a few weeks ago I tried to run ESX from USB… read more…
ESX VLAN to SonicWALL DMZ

I have an ESX server on my LAN and I want to connect it to the DMZ on my SonicWALL using a VLAN as the ESX server only has one network adaptor. The SonicWALL is a TZ 205w which is connected to Fibre. This in itself was a challenge and is described in the post… read more…
Cloning an ESXi USB boot flash drive

I have a couple of ESXi servers at home that I boot from USB keys – see the post Running ESXi 5.1 from a USB key. The problem is that using a USB imaging tool doesn’t seem to work. When I boot up ESX I get an error: BANK5: invalid configuration. BANK6: not a VMware boot… read more…