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Upgrade Install of ESXi 5.0 Update 1

I wrote some steps on this in a previous post.  I am back again to take you for my ride in upgrading to update 1 for ESXi 5. Direct download update link: https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/OFFLINE/release-328-20120312-212851/update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update01.zip Once you have the upgrade zip, you will wan to SCP this over to the ESXi 5 server. I use my datastore […]

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Updating ESXi 5 – How To

So you are running ESXi5 standalone in my house or your office.  You have a need up patch this baby for the latest in driver support for guest and perhaps for Runing Windows 8 on vSphere 5 Here are a few things you might want to know and do to make this happen   Make […]

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Windows 8 on vSphere 5

So I have had this desire to run Windows 8 in VMware  vSphere 5 for a long time now.   Knowing I could run it in Workstation 8; I wanted to also run this on my ESXi 5 host, but could not… So I waiting waited for an update.  I wasn’t going to hack my way to […]

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I/O Errors = Failing HD = ESX Server Issues

Hello All, Today I ran into some issues.  Merry Christmas! My Laptop/ESXi 5 Server started giving me issues with my guest systems.  After trying to work out the issues with web-server I noticed that other machine were also having the same issues.  Oh no!  My hard drive is on its way out.  I quickly jumped into action […]