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My previous test about running OpenFiler as iSCSI target for VMware ESX on my desktop working well. As part of my on going testing with VMware ESX Server, I tested running FreeNAS version 0.686 on my VMware ESX version 3.01 and VMware Workstation 6.
FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, [...]

The following article will guide you ‘how to install and configure NTP on VMware ESX host’
1. SSH on to VMware ESX host service console as the root user
2. Make a backup copy of existing files.
[root@esxhost]#cp /etc/ntp.conf /etc/ntp.conf.orig
[root@esxhost]#cp /etc/ntp/step-tickers etc/ntp/step-tickers.orig
3. Edit /etc/ntp.conf
[root@esxhost]#vi /etc/ntp.conf
#Insert the following details as example below:
restrict ntp1.planetmy.com kod nomodify notrap server
restrict ntp2.planetmy.com kod [...]

VMware ESX 3.5 was released some times ago.
Yesterday I have a time download a latest VMware ESX 3.5 and I have installed VMware ESX 3.5 in Workstation 6.
As usual, I believe this shouldn't be any problem for me. The installation go smooth but when I want to start the VMware ESX 3.5, it took me [...]

After upgraded to virtual center version 2.5 recently, I found an error message "host ESXhostname currently has no management network redundancy"  when I tried to create a new cluster with 2 ESX hosts.
My test setup has one service console & one VMkernel connected to vswitch0 with single network card for both ESX host. The funny [...]

My development VMware ESX box crashed early this morning with the error message "No VMkernel modules found" during server booting up. I'm not sure what I did last step and after reboot, the system show the error message.
However, I can still login as root without any problem and I noticed my network details are gone. [...]