Recently I got a call from a customer he was not able to log in to his ESX 5.5 hosts anymore trough ssh, and could not vMotion VM’s anymore. It seemed like the ssh daemon died and trying to start it again did not work. I was able to log on to one of the hosts (DL380 G8) and have a look at the vmkernel.log … [Read more...]
VMware: Install Broadcom 5720 network adapter
March 20, 2013 by
Today I installed a new Dell PowerEdgde R620 host with vSphere 5.0 update 1. The Intel Ethernet I350 adapter was recognized and installed correct but the Broadcom 5720 wasn’t. I downloaded the latest Broadcom driver CD from VMware and uploaded the extracted content to my local datastore. To install the drivers I used … [Read more...]