Comments on: Explorations with VMware ESXi (now free!) and Linux NICs

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:31:54 +0000

@Dan: That appears to be a bug but frankly, I haven’t used ESXi long enough to run into any issues or be extremely familiar with it. So far, everything running smooth and I’m happy :-) I did take a quick look at the GUI you’re talking about and it does look like the same thing is happening for me, I just don’t claim to understand why and I haven’t seen a reason to be concerned. If you find any more info I’d be happy to hear it!

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:23:13 +0000

David,

I was wondering if you have encountered a “time conflict” between what VMWare Infrasture Client and what the time is on the ESXi server is.

If I go to Configuration tab, click on “Time and Configuration” next to “Date & Time” moving the mouse over the time, I see an error that says:

“Shows the ESX Server’s time in VI Client local time. The translated ESX Server time does not match VI Client local time.”

What’s really strange, is when I go to the ESXi counsole, and check the logs, the time is correct.

For example:
current time on my workstation is 6:21 pm
current time on esxi server is 6:21 pm
VMware Infrastructure Client gui: 11:22 pm

Regards,
Dan

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:18:34 +0000

@moses: I’m glad you have it working; sorry if my instructions were at all unclear. I don’t claim to fully understand the bowels of linux, but I usually manage to get by with my existing experience and Google :-)

By: moses

moses — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:53:58 +0000

very good example, it works for me such good, but it tooks me about 4 hours to fix it. reason? i had 4 lines with â€œ1. PCI deviceâ€¦â€? and the one beneath it, starting with â€œSUBSYSTEM==â€?netâ€?â€¦â€?. you should kill all the lines if you have one ethernetcard and follow the instructions at point 2.

thank you very much, gerd

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:35:31 +0000

@Jeffrey Thompson: Glad you liked the article! I started out confused and not understanding the actual process very well (coming from a VMware Virtual Server-only background) but actually doing it clarified things so I thought I’d share what I went through. Hope you haven’t gotten around to installing ESXi yet, since they’ve hit a bit of a snag with their free Update 2 release. Not good for them, I’m running the problematic release but nothing mission critical on it fortunately!

@Carlo: Check out my link above about the bug in the free ESXi! But you’re welcome, I hope you get some good results in your tests! I’m enjoying it so far, minus the whole bug thing, which fortunately came soon enough to spare me much trouble. It’s worse for a lot of people! But I still like the product.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:39 +0000

Thanks for the detailed explanation on the ESXi install. And thanks for telling me how to download (for free) the VM Client, it was not clear in the VMW docs.
Thanks also for confirm that servers running ESX are compatible with ESXi. The ESXi compatibility list is currently offering too few choices!

By: Jeffrey Thompson

Jeffrey Thompson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:49:36 +0000

Great article! I can’t wait to install my ESXi soon. :)

By: shellie

shellie — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:35:41 +0000

LUCKY! I have an old Proliant ML370 G2 with a Smart Array 5i embedded and a SCSI disk array. I can’t get either raid to work! I’ve tried everything! I’ve tried installing everything! My old school server hates me. haha. Congrats. I’m jealous.