Why do you need to add drivers to a VMware ESXi ISO? VMware ESXi 5.5 was recently released, unfortunately ESXi 5.5 removed a lot of drivers for previously supported hardware. The drivers for the hardware that were removed still work fine on ESXi 5.5, you will just need to add the drivers for your hardware to the ISO before installing. A lot of methods exist for adding ISO’s on Linux, however for Windows users a tool called ESXi Customizer appears to be the easiest way to add drivers to an VMware ESXi ISO. ESXi Customizer is a user-friendly windows application that automates the process of customizing the ESXi ISO with drivers that are not originally included with ESXi. Download: ESXi Customizer 2.7.1 Visit: ESXi-Customizer homepage Using ESXi Customizer to add drivers to a VMware ESXi ISO: When you have loaded ESXi Customizer it’s a simple case of selecting the source ISO, this been your ESXi install iso. Next you can select the drivers you wish to include in the iso, usually distributed as a VIB file. Finally you must select an NTFS formatted working directory, this will also be where your customised ISO will be saved. In the example below i am customing…
Why the Highpoint Rocket 2720SGL? The Rocket 2720 SGL is an ideal SAS / SATA controller to use with VMware ESXi, it is a cost-effective, high-performance PCI-Express 2.0 6GB/s SAS controller. The 2720SGL supports up 8x SATA3 6gbs hard drives and is compatible with large drives above 3TB in size, prefect to use if your not after RAID and wish to use something like Windows Storage Spaces for example, or simply connect a lot of hard drives to a Virtual Machine and have off site backups. I personally dont feel i need a raid setup at home, however i shall leave my reasoning for that to another blog post. When purchasing the card i was unsure if it work when passed through to a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi, however i can confirm the Rocket 2720SGL works perfectly when passed through to a VMware ESXi virtual machine. ESXi recognises the card as a Marvell 88SE9480 SAS / SATA 6Gb/s RAID controller. However despite this please keep in mind the Rocket 2720SGL is not directly usable in ESXi, it can only be utilised when passedthrough to a Virtual Machine. My ESXi setup consists of Gigabyte GA-Z77N-WIFI motherboard and an Intel CPU Core i7 3770T Quad Core…
The Vmware ESXI Upgrade Process Vmware ESXi has a simple upgrade process that can be carried out either from a CD or USB Memory Stick. As i had never upgraded ESXi since my original install i decided to do a quick blog showing how the Vmware ESXI upgrade process should go. I will presume you either have ESXi on a CD or USB memory stick, however if not the latest version can be downloaded here. to start the Vmware ESXI upgrade process boot off either the CD or USB drive, then select the drive which contains your ESXi install. In the screenshot below i’m running the ESXi upgrade from a USB Memory stick, my ESXi is installed on another USB Memory Stick which i have selected to be upgraded. You have the choice to carry out a new install or upgrade an existing installation, here I am upgrading my existing install. The installer confirms that ESXi can be upgraded from 5.1.0 to 5.5.0 The upgrade process will start and take a couple of minutes to complete All been well you should be informed that the ESXi has been upgraded successfully After the reboot the Vmware ESXI upgrade process had been compleated, ESXi 5.5…
Outlook.com (Hotmail) setup with IMAP in the Apple OSX Mail App. By default if you want to access your Outlook.com / Hotmail or MSN email account in the OSX Mail app you had to do it with POP. Using POP is not ideal as it simply downloads the massage from the Outlook servers. You can not organise your email and sync changes back to Outlook, and between devices such as your desktop pc, laptop and mobile. Although not as good as Exchange Active Sync which is supported by most smartphone and Outlook 2013 on Windows, Mac OSX users can now use IMAP to sync mail to OSX. Outlook.com IMAP settings: Incoming IMAP Server: imap-mail.outlook.com Server port: 993 Encryption: SSL Outgoing SMTP Server: smtp-mail.outlook.com Server port: 587 Encryption: TLS Setting up OSX Mail using IMAP for Outlook.com: Open Mac Mail, from the File menu, choose Add Account then enter your Hotmail, Outlook or MSN email address and password, finally clicking continue. The account type you need to select is IMAP, you can enter anything you like for the description. The username is [email protected], your password is the password you usually use to sign in to outlook.com unless you have two factor…
The aim of this tutorial is to explain how you can easily update the quantity and price of many Ebay listing, including items with variations. This task will be completed with one simple upload to Ebay File Exchange. If you have been re stocking your item quantity or revising prices manually, this is guaranteed to save you a lot of time. I have decided to split this tutorial in to two parts, this first blog post will cover the basics on: What is Ebay File Exchange Creating a template for Ebay File Exchange uploads Revising the price and quantity of multiple single item listings Uploading to Ebay File Exchange A second blog post will advance on what you have learned in this blog post, the next blog will show how to update listing with variations, and even multiple variation listings all from the same file upload. So lets get started. 1. What is Ebay File Exchange? Ebay File exchange is an advanced web based tool provided by Ebay. File Exchange allows sellers greater control to manage high volumes of eBay listings. I find File Exchange is very useful for quickly updating the quantity of items in stock, and altering the prices…