Brocade fiber switch firmware upgrade
hello just a quick video how to upgrade your brocade fiber switch in a IBM BladeCenter enjoy Brocade fiber switch firmware upgrade
Vendor Customized ESX images
When you install ESXi 5.x from vmware you don't have all the plug-ins or modules that a vendor customized ESX images has. Why you ask? well you might want to monitor your ESX host with HP insight manager, IBM System Director or other management software. Or want to update your drivers and firmware with update software of the vendor, with this customized images of the vendor yo don't need to install de additional plug-ins. here are some links to the vendors i use the most ( at the time of writing ESXi 5.5 update 1 was out) IBM VMware vSphere hypervisor (ESXi) [...]
LSI MegaRaid Storage Manager for IBM Serveraid systemx or bladecenter on vmware ESXi 5.x
Long tittle i know. sorry about that i wanted to share this with everybody cause it took me hours to get this working on IBM servers ive been reading a lot of blogs about this so i wanted to put my findings here you can use a management windows station or a vm on the esx host itself (windows 2003 or higher) first i did some preparations: enabled ssh on your ESXi host start CIM server on your ESXi host your ESXi host must be 5.x !! tools that i used are: WinSCP - here Putty - here Download the [...]