Tag Archives: SSH

2511, 2013

Disable Flow Control

sam.aaron/ November 25, 2013/ Daily, ESX, HowTo, VMware/ 0 comments

I was onsite this past weekend doing a vSphere 5.1 turnkey install. The turnkey consisted of a C7000 Blade Chassis, and two ESXi 5.1U3 hosts. With this new installation, the customer was adding to a new 10Gbe environment to his network. There were also a few settings that needed to be made, specifically, disabling Flow Control on the ESXi Hosts

1206, 2010

SSH on ESXi

sam.aaron/ June 12, 2010/ Daily, ESXi, VMware/ 0 comments

I’ve had to google this too many times. So I figure if I make it a post in my blog, I might retain the information. 1. Go to the ESXi console and press alt+F1 2. Type: unsupported 3. Enter the root password(No prompt, typing is blindly) 4. At the prompt type “vi /etc/inetd.conf” 5. Look for the line that starts