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I'm confused ... I cannot find these PCI IDs in the mapping files of ESXi 5.1. Are you sure that this controller worked with ESXi 5.1 before? Or were you just passing it through to a VM? If it worked before then I guess it used the generic ahci driver. But this can of course only work if...

Hi kalex1114, can you please post the PCI ID of the asmedia controller? Please run "lspci -v" in an ESXi shell and paste the output here. I can then look at what ESXi 5.1 driver we would need in ESXi 5.5 to make it work. Thanks Andreas

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...

Just to follow up here: - ESXi-Customizer does also work with ESXi 5.1. - When adding tgz files you might need to choose the option "Force repacking" with some packages (this will prevent a "Boot image corrupt" message when trying to install later). This includes Chilly's e1001e.tgz file!

Now completed the third and last part of the series: The SBHVL project - Part 3: Management, Remote Access and more Security Enjoy it! - Andreas

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...

Part 2 is out now. About Backup and DR: http://v-front.blogspot.de/2012/09/the-sbhvl-project-part-2-backup-and.html - Andreas

Just posted part 1 of the series about Basic setup, Networking and Security: http://v-front.blogspot.de/2012/09/the-sbhvl-project-part-1-basic-setup.html Have fun! - Andreas

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...

Is this the system disk (the one that ESXi is installed on) that you are trying to expand? You cannot do this from the GUI then, but only from the console. See here for instructions: http://deinoscloud.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/how-to-increase-the-size-of-a-local-datastore-on-an-esxi4/ -...

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...

My test setup is currently a VM with FC-backed virtual disks that the QUADStor software exports via iSCSI (and yes, it uses a modified version of IET for that). See my blog post for details. I compare against an Openfiler VM that runs in the same environment. Both perform very similar and reach...

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...

This error message is typically thrown by ESXi 4.1 when no compatible network adapter can be found. Why don't you try ESXi 5.0? Network support has become better and even if your NIC is not supported out-of-the-box you might be lucky and find a community supported driver at...

Installing ESXi on USB key drives is common practice. However, maybe your drive has become defective. This would explain the odd behavior ...

Uh-oh ..., there is definitely something seriously wrong with your system. If you do not have a /bootbank/boot.cfg file I wonder how you are even able to boot? What is the history of this box? Was it a clean install of ESXi 5.0 or an upgrade? Did something break later? Do you have any other...

You don't need to restart the host. Just shut down and power off all running VMs, then enter maintenance mode, either via the vSphere client or in a shell by running vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter

Yes, weird... Maybe it's because you have connected via ssh. Have you tried that on the local shell at the console? However, the messages about "/bootbank/boot.cfg" and "/altbootbank" not being found are unexpected. This file and this directory should definitely exist. Can you please check on...

This should definitely work when the system is in maintenance mode and/or not running any VMs. Make sure that this is the case, and if it still doesn't work please post the relevant contents of the log file /var/log/esxupdate.log - Andreas

Hi, for the DCUI you could change the console banner like described here: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2010/09/how-to-add-splash-of-color-to-esxi-dcui.html For ssh logins you could try something like described here...

Okay, may be a bug in ESXi-Customizer. I will try to reproduce and fix that ... In the meantime add the oem.tgz version of Chilly's driver to the ISO (instead of the VIB version). Get it here: http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1038022084&postcount=80. - Andreas Update: Okay, I can reproduce...

Hi andymatei, I cannot tell you how to fix that, but there is an alternative way to get ESXi 5.0 installed on your USB key drive: Download the free VMware Player from VMware (if you have Workstation 8 installed you can also use that), and create a new ESXi 5.0 VM with it by pointing to the...

Vader, just another thought ...: Did you by chance enable "Lockdown mode" when adding the host to vCenter? This will prevent the HA agent from being installed. Let us know the results of further testing. I really like to rule out ESXi-Customizer having a bad influence here. I did a...

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...

@Vader, the log file to check is /var/log/esxupdate.log the error "Address family not supported by protocol" is very unusual and points to a more basic networking problem. According to http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003490 this could be cause by a corrupt /etc/hosts file, but I would suggest that...

@DirtyWilly you have these options: - You can build a custom ISO by applying either the oem.tgz or the VIB file to the vanilla ISO with ESXi-Customizer - With the VIB file only you can create a custom ISO "the official way" using VMware's Image Builder PowerCLI plug-in - When you have a host...

Never seen that ... Just a guess: Have you enabled IPv6 on the host? If yes, try disabling it.

Hmmm, I guess the lost config is a result of the hard reset. The install command should not take that long. I just tried that again and it took 30 seconds or so. Maybe the download of the file takes very long in your case or does not work at all. Can you try to copy the file to a local datastore...

Have you tried putting the host into maintenance mode before?

Vader, here is something to try for you: I'm currently working on a new version of my ESXi-Customizer script that will include a new utility called TGZ2VIB5. This will convert an oem.tgz file (like Chilly's) into a VIB file. This is the "official" VMware software package format. I am not yet...

This shouldn't be related. The HA (or FDM) agent is deployed to the hosts by vCenter when you enable HA/FDM on the cluster. So, it is not part of the install ISO. For troubleshooting FDM see here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2004429 - Andreas

Chilly, looks good ... When creating an oem.tgz-package please consider the hints I gave here to avoid your custom driver being overwritten by the original one: http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3494 Thanks! - Andreas

VMware vSphere 5.0 Open Source: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/vsphere_50_oss/dHRAYnRocGRiZHAlJQ== Thanks to anyone who participated in spamming [email protected] ;) You can stop now ... @Chilly: The source code we are looking for is deeply hidden in the archive ... Look for the file...

If you install the ESXi 5.0 driver you will be able to create VMFS datastores on the disks that are attached to the Areca controller. And on the VMFS datastores you can create virtual disks and attach them to your fileserver (or any other) VM. One way to get this working is to create a custom...

I opened a new thread for that: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1645908 - Andreas

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...

Another option is to use the Areca-controller and the attached hard disks directly with ESXi 5.0. There is a ESXi 5.0-driver available directly from Areca here: http://www.areca.com.tw/support/s_vmware/vmware.htm The zip-file for ESXi 5.0 includes a vib-file that you can apply with my...

It does contain ESXi 5.0 with all drivers that have been updated by VMware since the release of ESXi 5.0. These updated drivers are available as separate downloads here: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0#drivers_tools And, no, there is no...

All, I think that it is not possible (or at least very difficult) to built an ESXi 5.0 compatible device driver without access to the open source code of the drivers that are shipped by VMware, and - more important - the modifications that were made to it by VMware (Chilly: If you do not...