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Comment on vSphere 5 vCenter Server Virtual Appliance Quick-Start Guide by Eyrle

Eyrle — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:27:05 +0000

I deployed the vCSA and when it’s Running it’s working great. But I have a problem where it just stops the vCenter Service and I can’t restart it from the web GUI :5480 I have to re-boot the appliance. I have 2 esxi 4 enterprise hosts and 115 VM’s load balanced across them. I increased the db2 logs from KB 2006812 “”VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.0 GA with embedded DB2 database fails”" .. This seemed to work for about a week. but now it’s Failing again nightly.

Comment on Cloud computing gets a lot more personal by Will

Will — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:44:29 +0000

Nice post Hugo, I have to ask though, is this post in response to the grief we have been giving you over the size of your phone?

Comment on Creating (a better) vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick (HP) by Will

Will — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:13:40 +0000

Hey Hugo, WillyBoy here,
I just downloaded the newest version of the ISO from HP
(5.0_U1_Mar_2012_ESXi_HD-USB-SDImgeInstlr_Z7550-00352.iso)
and I ran in to, what I think, may be similar issues to the other guys.
I tried the “changing from iso-to-floppy-to-iso” trick in unetbootin with no joy. I even tried downloading the slightly older, non-update 1 image, also to no avail.

I don’t think unetbootin liked the original HP file name as the software would become unresponsive on the first section () and then skip rapidly to the end and instead of all of the ESXi source files on the usb key there would only be the following files:

ldlinux.sys
menu.c32
syslinux.cfg
ubninit
ubnkern

What worked for me was renaming the iso file that I had downloaded.

Original filename:
5.0_U1_Mar_2012_ESXi_HD-USB-SDImgeInstlr_Z7550-00352.iso
New filename:
VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0.update01-623860.x86_64_Z7550-00352.iso

Now Obviously I just nicked the original VMware name and replaced most of the HP file name, I think anything short would probably do.

Hope this helps anyone else stuck with the new image
Will.

Comment on Creating (a better) vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick (HP) by Hugo Phan

Hugo Phan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:48:33 +0000

Thanks for sharing Ben.

Comment on Creating (a better) vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick (HP) by Chris

Chris — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:40:02 +0000

Yes, that does the job… Thanks..

Comment on Creating (a better) vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick (HP) by ben

ben — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:05:49 +0000

Well i’m back again, but this time with good news.
When you chose the .iso in unetbootin, the drop down (floppy/iso) changes to floppy. Change it back to .iso and even the latest hp .iso’s worked for me. I was using unetbootin-windows-575.

Comment on Creating (a better) vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick (HP) by ben

ben — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:44:32 +0000

even the oct2011 one does the same thing. I wonder if we are all trying this on a HP n40l server?

Comment on Creating (a better) vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick (HP) by Hugo Phan

Hugo Phan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:37:22 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. This post was done using 5.0_Oct_2011_ESXi_HD-USB-SDImgeInstlr_Z7550-00253.iso. I’ve not tried using Update 1, for that it may be better to use this method instead: http://vmwire.com/2011/09/11/creating-vsphere-5-esxi-embedded-usb-stick/. Not tried this myself though.

Comment on Creating (a better) vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick (HP) by ben

ben — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:28:59 +0000

same issue as the three posters above.

Comment on vSphere 5 vCenter Server Virtual Appliance Quick-Start Guide by Will

Will — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:41:49 +0000

Nice tutorial Hugo, I especially liked the video!