Tag: esxi
-
VMware ESXi: Datastore Delights
Earlier this week I was working on an ESXi VM host that had a huge (4TB) amount of local storage. Ideally, I would have liked to provision a single datastore on the server, but as I found out, this isn’t possible; ESXi supports datastore sizes up to 2TB, but no higher. The odd thing about…
-
Resetting ESXi Root Passwords
I was recently playing around with VMware’s ESXi hypervisor a few days ago on a lab server when I forgot the password. Happens to the best of us. While the VMs on the server continued running as if nothing was wrong, this was obviously a problem becuase I couldn’t properly shut down, reboot, or update…