Ok first off let me start by saying that this is probably the coolest piece of home computing hardware that I have ever laid my hands on. Yes the setup was easy, and yes the thing is rock solid, and yes wireless range is awesome. But for approx $200 USD you really should not expect anything less. I'm not going to go into its specs or features, as I'll leave that to the professions. Read up on it here.
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Enabling SNMP in ESXi 4.1 using the Remote CLI
Based on the fact that ESX 4.1 is the last major release of ESX, I decided that I would make myself familiar with managing ESXi hosts. Since I monitor all my hosts via Zenoss, I figured that I needed to get snmp up and running first
ESX Post Install – Enable NTP and SNMP
This post is the first in what I suspect will be a semi-long list of post-install hints and tips as I go through and start rebuilding my cluster as Vsphere 4. Hopefully I will learn a lot along the way... like for example the fact the ntp and snmp traffic is not allowed by default … Continue reading ESX Post Install – Enable NTP and SNMP