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vSphere ESXi 4.0 Install and Configure

info@liveammo.com (http://GoVirtual.tv) — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:25:55 +0000

This tutorial video will walk you through the process of installing and configuring vSphere ESXi 4.0 on a 64-bit server (in this instance, a Dell PowerEdge 1950). VMware vSphere ESXi 4.0 is the most recent bare metal hypervisor released by VMware, Inc. The ESXi line of hypervisors are considered "thin hypervisors" as they do not include a Service Console/Console Operating System. vSphere ESXi comes in two major flavors: vSphere ESXi Embedded, which are hardware memory modules shipped by OEM vendors such as Dell, Compaq, IBM etc.; and, vSphere ESXi Installable, which is distributed by VMware, Inc. as an ISO image that the install CD is created from. This video is based upon the latter of the two.

It should also be noted that vSphere ESXi 4.0 can be downloaded and used for free, with all of the standard functionality that ships with the commercial standalone ESX and ESXi products. The vSphere line of hypervisors only run on 64-bit hardware, unlike earlier hypervisors such as VI3 that ran on both 32 and 64-bit architectures.

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Adding a VMkernel Port to a ESX 3.5 Host

info@liveammo.com (http://GoVirtual.tv) — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:28:40 +0000

If you ever get one of the following error messages:

"VMotion and IP Storage Has Not Been Enabled"

"Error during the configuration of the host: Please make sure you have configured networking for VMkernel"

"The VMotion interface is not configured (or is misconfigured) on the destination host"

…then chances are you have not yet configured your VMkernel interface on your ESX host, which is required for IP Storage (iSCSI and NFS), as well as for live migration of VMs via VMotion. In this video we discuss the architecture of the VMkernel on an ESX 3.5 host, as well as VMkernel communications on ESX3i Embedded and ESX3i Installable hosts.

This video includes a walk-through for the installation of the VMkernel port on an ESX 3.5 U3 host.

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Raw Device Mappings

info@liveammo.com (http://GoVirtual.tv) — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:27:37 +0000

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of installing a VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 Virtual Machine into a Raw Device Mapping (RDM). In this video we discuss the architecture of Raw Device Mappings, fibre channel and iSCSI storage fabric zoning requirements for RDMs, the process for installing a VM into an RDM, as well as the performance implications of VMFS vs. RDM installations.

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Welcome to GoVirtual.tv

info@liveammo.com (http://GoVirtual.tv) — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:00:58 +0000

Welcome to the GoVirtual.tv Video Blog! This video blog is dedicated to providing cutting edge video tutorials and screencasts related to enterprise virtualization and cloud computing technologies.

Our focus is on the VMware vSphere and VMware Infrastructure suites of enterprise virtualization hypervisors and management products developed and sold by VMware, Inc.