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Sunday, July 09, 2006

Virtual Infrastructure Upgrate Part II

So, on Friday, we installed ESX 3 on vm3. We don't have the HBAs yet and will probably re-install ESX 3 once we get the new hardware in. We were really just playing around to see how it would go. The first time, I left the service console's IP address to DHCP. Bad idea.

Trying to get it to be statically assigned was a pain. There may have been an easier way, but we ended up just re-installing ESX 3. That whole process only takes about 15 minutes and is as simple as installing a simple application in windows. Just agree to everything and it is done... except for the IP, have your static ready :). The hang up with changing the IP from DHCP to static was with the new Virtual Infrastructure Client. It didn't seem to want to let us do it. Back when we were using the bovine interface (MUI) on ESX 2.5, it was way easier.

Anyway, now vm3 is running ESX3. I have the virtual infrastructure client installed on my PC. It seems to co-habitate just fine with Virtual Center 1.3. Before installing it, I experimented in a Virtual Machine running XP Pro. It seemed to all be going just fine till we got to the licensing part. I installed the stand-alone Licensing server on our existing VirtualCenter server. Another bad idea, I guess. After much horsing around, we added the host based license to the server. Seems it may be better to do the licensing server along with the VC2 server install. We'll see.

Next step is to get virtual center 2 installed. I wonder if we can upgrade our existing VC1.3 instance so that we don't lose any historical data... not that it really matters. In fact, I think I'd rather have a clean install than have to wonder if this problem or that is caused by a faulty upgrade. Who knows? Anyone out there have any experience with any of this? Comments are always welcome!

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Posted By: Jim on Sunday, July 09, 2006
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2 Comments:

  • You installed a ESX3 RC2 on your production server (vm3)? That's a bold move but I guess there are some ppl that like to live on the edge, go where no man has gone before. the final frontier and all that ;)

    By Anonymous jako, at July 13, 2006 3:27 AM  

  • Heck no... The server that I installed it on (vm3) was a spare that we're about to put into production... and it isn't RC2... it is build 27701 from 6/15. Or did I miss something really big?

    By Blogger Jim, at July 13, 2006 6:15 AM  

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