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Hi all, I have created an Offline Bundle that installs the ProFTPD FTP server on ESXi 5.x and enables you to transfer files from and to ESXi hosts using an FTP client. Detailed information is available here: http://proftpd.v-front.de/. Please note: I am aware of that there are other ways...

Hi all, I have posted a short guide for updating your ESXi 5.0 whitebox to ESXi 5.1 while preserving any community supported / non-VMware drivers: http://v-front.blogspot.de/2012/09/how-to-update-your-free-whitebox-esxi.html It looks like drivers compiled for ESXi 5.0 still work in ESXi...

Hi all, I have started a series of blog posts describing a reference architecture for an all-in-one-box hosted virtual lab solution. I have called it the SBHVL (Small Budget Hosted Virtual Lab) project. If you are interested in this sort of thing then please read the introduction post and...

Hi all, I just published a new version of the ESXi-Customizer script. ESXi-Customizer is a Windows-only script for customizing the ESXi installation CD with community-developed drivers that are available in OEM.tgz format. It supports ESXi 4.1 and 5.0. With ESXi 5.0 also VIB files and...

Hi all, I just released the first version of my ESXi5 Community Packaging Tools. These are two scripts: tgz2vib5.cmd (to convert a TGZ file to a VIB file, formerly included with ESXi-Customizer) vib2zip.cmd (to combine one or more VIB files into an Offline Bundle ZIP) These scripts can...

Hi all, the QUADStor software is a storage virtualization stack that delivers thin provisioning, deduplication, compression and VAAI support(!) for free. I have written a detailed article on my blog about the software, and I am currently evaluating it as a storage solution for VMware...

Hi all, I just published a new version of the ESXi-Customizer script. ESXi-Customizer is a Windows-only script for customizing the ESXi installation CD with community-developed drivers that are available in OEM.tgz format. It supports ESXi 4.1 and 5.0. With ESXi 5.0 also VIB files and...

Hi all, since the release of VMware's ESXi 5.0 (Aug 25, 2011) many people are asking for the development of drivers for hardware devices that are not supported by ESXi 5.0 out-of-the-box. ESXi device drivers are based on Linux device drivers (which lead to the persistent misunderstanding...