ESX 3.5 and 3i White boxes and working SATA controllers This table contains a list of systems, motherboards and SATA controllers that have been tested and found to work with ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5 Installable. Please check out the source column for a system you are considering using as some systems will include special steps to enable ESX / ESXi to run on that system or have other issues to overcome. None of these systems are supported by VMWare for running ESX. For a list of those systems please see this PDF. In same cases for ESXi, the system may be booting from a USB flash drive and be using no local storage.If you have tested a system that is not listed here, please contact me on the VMware Technology Network community: VMTN Profile or leave a comment at the bottom of the page.NOTE: this list include... with containscontrollersesxilistmotherboardssatasystemstable
ESXi (ESX 3i) Enable SSH ESXi 3.5 does ship with the ability to run SSH, but this is disabled by default (and is not supported). If you just need to access the console of ESXi, then you only need to perform steps 1 - 3.1) At the console of the ESXi host, press ALT-F1 to access the console window.2) Enter unsupported in the console and then press Enter. You will not see the text you type in.3) If you typed in unsupported correctly, you will see the Tech Support Mode warning and a password prompt. Enter the password for the root login.4) You should then see the prompt of ~ #. Edit the file inetd.conf (enter the command vi /etc/inetd.conf).5) Find the line that begins with #ssh and remove the #. Then save the file. If you're new to using vi, then move the cursor down to... with 3.5abilitydisabledesxirunshipsshsupportedby 2 users
Updating the VMWare ESXi Disk Dump File | Grid.org Updating the VMWare ESXi Disk Dump FileSo in my previous blog I said I used iSCSI to mount the VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-103909.i386.dd disk dump included in the VMWare ESXi install...I recieved a few comments about this as it is a heavy handed way of getting the support you need, so I figured out a non-iscsi way of mounting the VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-103909.i386.dd file. with blogdiskdumpesxifilesopreviousupdatingvmware