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Revision as of 09:49, 12 November 2008
, 09:49, 12 November 2008added instructions to update the ESXi System Image
=== Addtional Information ===
=== Addtional Information ===
===== How to make the statically linked Rsync Binary =====
===== How to update the ESXi System Image =====
Shutdown the ESXi server. Remove the USB Memory stick and plug it into a linux computer.
run the <tt>dmesg</tt> command to find out the device the memory stick is assigned to. The following example assumes that it is /dev/sdf. Replace is by the correct device.
mkdir -p /mnt/esxi
mount -t vfat /dev/sdf5 /mnt/esxi
Save local.tgz and the bexi/ directory to the local machine
cp -a /mnt/esxi/local.tgz /mnt/esxi/bexi .
umount /mnt/esxi
Download the ISO from the [http://www.vmware.com/download/esxi/ VMWare website] and extract the image.
mount -o loop VMware-VMvisor-InstallerCD*iso /mnt/esxi/
mkdir -p /tmp/esxi
tar -xvzf /mnt/esxi/install.tgz -C /tmp/esxi/
umount /mnt/esxi
cd /tmp/esxi/usr/lib/vmware/installer/
bzip2 -d VMware-VMvisor-big*.dd.bz2
Write the new image to the memory stick. Make sure that you use the correct target device of=...
dd if=VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_3-123629.i386.dd of=/dev/sdf
rm -rf /tmp/esxi
Copy local.tgz and the bexi/ directory to the memory stick.
mount -t vfat /dev/sdf5 /mnt/esxi
cp -a local.tgz bexi /mnt/esxi
umount /mnt/esxi
Plug the memory stick into the ESXi server and power on.
Note: Alternatively you can install the new ESXi image on a second memory stick and then remote copy local.tgz and bexi/ from the running ESXi. Then shut down the ESXi server, replace the stick and power on. This minimizes the down time.
===== How to make a statically linked Rsync Binary =====
1. download the source from http://rsync.samba.org/
1. download the source from http://rsync.samba.org/
