I have a pair of nice servers that I'm going to install ESXi [and subsequentially, hopefully, HP VSA]. Each server has 12 disks and a nice RAID card [one areca, one 3ware] Unfortunately it appears at ...

In a previous article, I discussed the release of VMware's ESXi on Arm Fling. In this article, I will give an overview of my experience installing it. The ESXi on Arm Fling site has a list of ...

Does the server have light-out mgmt? You can upgrade the BIOS via that. That takes care of the host. ESXi updates can be done through a vCenter.

I will admit first of all that I am no scripter. But I find that when I go about the task of doing repetitive tasks, PowerCLI (vSphere's PowerShell extension) is the way to go. I usually also ...