Virtualizing Live Linux Server to ESX 3.x Host

1 comment September 5th, 2007 01:55pm ilya.m

There are many ways to virtualize a linux O.S. This video tutorial will show you how to do a live pull of running Linux O.S. to ESX host. (more…)

ESX 3.x Updater Standard (ESX Host Edition - UPDATED)

2 comments July 26th, 2007 06:07pm ilya.m

Project Purpose:
CURRENT STATUS: VmWare site changes detected, adjusting the script to work with latest changes, please check back later

ESX Updater 3.x project has been created to simplify the patch management of ESX 3.x hosts. It connects to vmware site, downloads and installs various update packages you choose. It is intelligent enough to autodetect ESX version you are running, checks for internet connectivity and root permissions. Moreover, script lets user choose which packages can be installed (critical, general, security or all).

Written in bash, script should run on ESX 3.x host. Please note, if ESX host is in active state - serving VMs, prior to update, all VMs must be either VMontion(ed) to another ESX host or shutdown. Since ESX 3.x comes stripped of all essential utilities, this script comes bundled with GNU wget utility from RHEL3 that will work on VmWare ESX 3.x.

Watch video demo on ESX-Updater in action (more…)

ESX 3.x Updater Web Edition (Development Stage)

2 comments July 19th, 2007 06:42pm ilya.m

Project purpose:
To simplify ESX Updates even further, I’m writting all in one web application with following features:

Automatically goes out to VmWare site and looks for new patches
If new patches found, downloads it to a local repository
Analyzes your currently configured ESX hosts against latest available patches
Gives suggestions as to which packages to apply (more…)

ESX 3.x Updater Standard (Repository Server)

14 comments July 12th, 2007 04:02pm ilya.m

Project Purpose:

CURRENT STATUS: VmWare site changes detected, adjusting the script to work with latest changes, please check back later!

ESX Updater 3.x project has been created to simplify the patch management of ESX 3.x hosts. It connects to vmware site and downloads various update packages you choose (critical, general, security or all). It creates tar.gz file with install script. Written in bash, it must be run on non-esx, preferably Linux host, to create tar.gz installer. Script must be ran on Linux with general GNU utilities (sed, awk, wc, wget, tar, gz and perl) host connected to the internet.

Script Type: Repository Server Edition -> this script must be run on Linux non ESX host.If you ESX host has internet connectivity, I highly recommend using this script.
Supported OS:
ESX 3.0.0 and ESX 3.0.1 (more…)