Posts tagged "esx-2"

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Want to see HP Flex-10 and ESX(i) at VMWorld? Vote for session 3005!

May 10, 2011

( is coming up and one of the great things about the conference is independent community members can also offer to present on any topic of interest. I've put forward a presentation proposal Designing and Building a Simple and Scalable Virtual Infrastructure with HP Flex-10 and ESX(i) which is the ONLY HP Flex-10 related presentation proposal. As there are many more presentation proposals than a...

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Configuring Cisco Ports with HP Flex-10 to avoid loops

Apr 28, 2011

When deploying HP Flex-10 switches in your racks, one of the things that is often overlooked is ensuring you have the correct upstream switch port configuration. Your Flex-10 switches make up only one half of your network topology and need to be connected to upstream switches to complete the networking design. I'm going to use the example of Cisco upstream switches. I've blogged previously on m...

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ESX 4.1 bnx2x 1.62.15.v41.2 driver IS now supported with HP Flex-10

Apr 13, 2011

I've had confirmation from HP that the ESX 4.1 bnx2x _1.62.15.v41.2_ driver is now officially supported with Flex-10. Although the supported driver is listed as _1.62.15.v41_, the ._2_ at the end of the driver available for download was to facilitate a small change but has been fully tested and certified_._ ( My ( "New Broadcom bnx2x drivers released for ESX but beware, not all are supported wi...

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New Broadcom bnx2x drivers released for ESX but beware, not all are supported with HP Flex-10

Apr 1, 2011

VMware has released some new Broadcom bnx2x Nic Drivers which are used in HP blades for the HP NC532 Nics. As with most bnx2x network card driver updates and HP Flex-10 there's good news, bad news and unfortunately also the usual confusing news. Let's clear up the confusing news first. There have been two new drivers released: VMWare's Compatibility Guides show which drivers are supported with...

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Installing HP Agents on ESX with PowerCLI and Putty/Plink

Mar 7, 2011

Anyone who needs to build multiple ESX(i) hosts naturally looks to scripting to automate the process. Scripting allows for faster deployment once you have developed the script but equally important reduces human error. It's far to easy to mistype a port group name, vlan number or IP address. Scripting removes this element of humen error and allows you to build ESX(i) hosts preditably and quickl...

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HP Flex-10, ESX and Broadcom fun still continuing with ESX 4.1 Update 1…

Feb 24, 2011

ESX 4.1 update 1 was released recently which started the investigation again into the Broadcom bnx2x driver versions which are important in HP Blade installations. Here's a timeline of what drivers have been released: So, there are two Update Manager driver updates with the same version number: _1.54.1.v41.1-2_. The 29/11/2010 version with Vendor Assigned ID: ESX410-201011401-BG has this associ...

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Scripting Flex-10 ESX design with PowerCLI

Feb 18, 2011

My ( posts detail the configuration steps required to deploy ESX with Flex-10. There's a lot of clicking around in the vSphere client that can be automated with PowerCLI. The steps below will set up the ESX networking component as described in the design posts so can be incorporated into the rest of your PowerCLI build process. The information text and colours are optional but it does make it e...

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Flex-10 ESX design with simplicity and scalability: Part 1

Feb 17, 2011

I've written quite a few ( about HP Flex-10 and some of the challenges and solutions to getting everything up and running. I've also discussed my ideas about Flex-10 ESX design on the ( podcast so here it is... If you are deploying Flex-10 make sure you have all the prerequisites in place: ( I also recently managed to find the manual page for the HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module...

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Flex-10 ESX design with simplicity and scalability: Part 2

Feb 17, 2011

This post continues from ( where the Flex-10 configuration was done. So now we have all the Flex-10 networking configured, its time to see how this works in ESX. All VLANs are now being passed down all the uplinks, through the Flex-10 switches and onto the _vm\_trunk\_1a_ and _vm\_trunk\_2a_ Ethernet Networks. What we need to do now is install ESX or ESXi and get them connected to the networks....

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Getting Nic firmware versions with PowerCLI

Jan 27, 2011

Sometimes you need to delve into the innards of ESX to get information out that just isn't available through the VMware SDK and so not directly available to PowerCLI. If you've been doing any work recently with HP Flex-10 and its firmware requirements, you may need to find out the network card firmware version which is only available from within the ESX console by typing ethtool -i vmnic0 So, P...

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