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April 27, 2026 | ESX, ESXi, ESXi 7, ESXi 8, Homelab, vCenter 7, vCenter 8, VCF, VMware, vSphere 7, vSphere 8 | No Comments
Greetings, today we are going to be deleting a VSAN Datastore. This might be needed if vCenter crashed and you cant recover it or you’re blowing out your lab and didn’t properly remove VSAN. So to start, login to the ESXi Host Client On the left pane, select Storage Select one of your drives and […]
Greetings, so this article is for those in higher security environments where you might not be able to use the executable installer in the vCenter ISO. So to start, navigate to your file location that has the VCSA ISO, right-click the ISO and select Mount You will get a confirmation window before it mounts the […]
Greetings, today we will be configuring an ESXi 8 host after we installed it. Configuring host from the DCUI This will be done as a nested hypervisor instance but the steps are identical. This will be your starting screen, as you can see, there is no IP or name. Hit F2 to Customize the system […]
Greetings, today we will be installing ESXi 8 to a virtual machine. The steps are the same for the actual installation to hardware. So I have made a Virtual Machine with 8 vCPU’s, 48GB RAM, and a 40GB Hard Drive I have also attached the ESXi 8.03 ISO to the VM for this install. There […]
December 1, 2025 | ESXi, ESXi 7, ESXi 7 CLI Update, Homelab, VMware | No Comments
Greetings, today we will be updating ESXi 7 to a newer version of 7 using command line and no vCenter. In this case 7.0.3d to 7.0.3w. Note: All VMs running on the host should be powered off, or vmotioned to another host if there is a vCenter available. To start we will need to have […]