I sat through a great session the other day about ESX 3i. Here are some notes in no particular order. This is more of a brain dump than anything else. Nothing new here, just new to me.
- Installation -> has a time out feature, if no response is received, it will autoconfigure and continue. i.e if no root password is entered, it will continue with blank
- Installation -> Along the same lines, if no IP address is given, it will attempt DHCP. If it can not DHCP it will assign itself a 169.254.XXX.XXX address
- Hardware Agents and other vendor software will run as a CIM (Common Information Model) plug-in - This is how an IBM Director / HP Insight Manager Agent will be installed
- For embedded Hypervisor, 2 copies of the OS will reside on the flash. One will be the primary boot, the other will serve as a backup in case the primary can’t boot
- Upgrades will be an entire new flash image, not a patch to the flash
- Before an upgrade is peerformed, the primary flash is copied to the backup flash
- Remote CLI commands have changed. i.e. esxcfg-* command will now be vicfg-*
- ESX 3i installations will be seen as a Level 0 Enhanced Agent in Director, this will allow basic hardware alerts from the machine
- the installable 3i can not be copied to a flash and "converted" into embedded 3i. The only way to get embedded 3i is to order the machine with 3i installed
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