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Comment on How to PXE boot from your trunked vmnic0 by honglus

honglus — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:15:53 +0000

I have successfully PXE kickstarted ESXi 5 on a trunked interface.
It was made possible with the following two technologies:

1. Mutiple boot agent(MBA): NIC supports VLAN tag in BIOS, such as MBA of Broadcom NICs
2. VMware ESXi 5: A new parameter, vlanid, is introduced as a boot option.(not the same as vlanid in kickstart configuration file

details:
http://honglus.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/pxe-kickstart-vmware-esxi-5-on-trunked.html

Comment on Understanding ESXi – stateless, diskless, feckless by Sunmeet

Sunmeet — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:00:45 +0000

Thanks for sharing, very helpful indeed.

Comment on vSphere 5 Card by Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:57:37 +0000

Hi Bjorn, great feedback! I’ll try to get out a corrective update this weekend and I’ll include all your points here. Thank you very much for letting me know.

Comment on vSphere 5 Card by Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:54:24 +0000

Hi Jakk, yes you’re right. That is what the latest version of the documentation is stating. Thanks for pointing it out. I hope to get a small revision out this weekend and I’ll include this.

Comment on vSphere 5 Card by Jakk

Jakk — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:58:34 +0000

Hi, thanks for this great resource ! Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the number of supported hosts/VMs for the embedded database in vCenter Virtual Appliance should be <5 hosts & < 50 VMs instead of <100 hosts & < 1000 VMs ?

Source:
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc_50/GUID-0B9988FF-5FB6-4656-9C58-EE3617B57E90.html

Look under:
"Configure Database Settings for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance"

Comment on vSphere 5 notes by Purushothama S

Purushothama S — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:32:16 +0000

Because of this site I got lot of knowledge, This is the very good article i ever seen on VMWARE.
Thanks a Lot,
If possible please provide some interview related stuffs in viva and scenario.

Comment on vSphere 5 Card by Bjorn

Bjorn — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:11:31 +0000

Hi,

First of all: great job with these cards!!! Thanks a lot for your work. They are exceptionally useful.
As I’m studying the full page card more closely for my VCP 510 exam, I noticed a few very small errors. Nevertheless I thought you would like to know them:
- Search for ‘dchp’ and you’ll find one result, which should be ‘dhcp’.
- In the section about vCenter alarms, I noticed that these 2 sentences are describing the exact same thing: “Default alarms don’t have actions set” and “Default alarms not preconfigured with actions”.
- “vcenter server heatbeat” is missing an ‘r’ in ‘heaRtbeat’.
- In the Networking section you refer to “see Jumbo Frames below”, but this is discussed above.

Again thank you for these excellent reference cards!
Kind reagrds, Bjorn

Comment on Minor update to the vSphere 5 Reference Card by Chris

Chris — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:06:50 +0000

Hi Forbes
Thanks for this great collection of crucial vSphere facts! It helped me a lot accomplishing my vSphere training with successful VCP5 exam.

Comment on Auto Deploy design concern by Michael Webster

Michael Webster — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:01:55 +0000

An updated version of vShield (v5.0.1) has some out and now vShield App and Endpoint are supported with Auto Deploy. This is because the VIB’s are now available to include in Image Builder Profiles and custom images for use with Auto Deploy. Auto Deploy can also be protected by vCenter Heartbeat when it is installed on the vCenter Server. So Auto Deploy can now be used in a lot more environments.

Comment on vSphere 5 notes by Ankur Maheshwari

Ankur Maheshwari — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:38:02 +0000

Hey Forbes,

Thanks a TOn …..

Regards,
Akki !!!!!!