Chris Muench » blades http://cmuench.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:56:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 MM update. http://cmuench.com/2007/01/mm-update/ http://cmuench.com/2007/01/mm-update/#comments Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:00:35 +0000 Chris http://vm09.hostingtruth.net/~cmuench/2007/01/22/mm-update/ Continue reading →]]> I would urge all you 86773xu blade owners out there to update your firmware.  IBM has just released one on the 10 that actually lets you use the keyboard on remote control!!  It is actually a joy now to work on your $50,000 blade servers :)   Thats all for now folks.

]]> http://cmuench.com/2007/01/mm-update/feed/ 0 Vmware on blades. http://cmuench.com/2006/12/vmware-on-blades/ http://cmuench.com/2006/12/vmware-on-blades/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:45:42 +0000 Chris http://vm09.hostingtruth.net/~cmuench/2006/12/23/vmware-on-blades/ Continue reading →]]> This is my first post on blades.   At work we run ESX 3.0.1 on 2 IBM HS20 blades.  They have dual core proc. and 8 gigs of RAM.  The one trick to installing ESX on blade via remote control is to use the following command.

[command]

esx vga=788

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Now if the the installation is still unusable you will have to go to the physical console and do the installation from there.  After the installtion is complete reboot the server.  It will bring up a message saying what the conjsole ip is.

Now I would recommend you setup a samba share now so you can boot off of iso’s.   Its much easier than having to constantly use the console and mount a local device.

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