{"id":64,"date":"2009-06-02T14:57:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T06:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depannone.com\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2009-06-02T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T06:57:46","slug":"esx-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"ESX Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am lucky enough to have a mate that from time to time gives me some of his old computer hardware.  Recently he gave me a dual P4 2.4 Ghz XEON system along with (from memory) 5GB of RAM.<\/p>\n<p>He installed ESX on it for me along with XP to only run the VI client &#8211; I feel a bit dirty running XP.<\/p>\n<p>I am as happy as a pig in shit.  Will slowly move my physical machines across to the new lump of hardware as VM&#8217;s using VMware converter.<\/p>\n<p>Have already run into a problem getting an old Ubuntu 7.10 server install into ESX.  It would appear that Ubuntu binds the NIC to a MAC and hence to an interface (eth0).  ESX gives the VM NIC an new MAC address so its not getting on the network at the moment.  <\/p>\n<p>Looks like udev needs to be fooled into reassigning eth0 to the virtual NIC&#8217;s MAC address.  Stay tuned (I&#8217;m sure you are all bursting to know what happens).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am lucky enough to have a mate that from time to time gives me some of his old computer hardware. Recently he gave me a dual P4 2.4 Ghz XEON system along with (from memory) 5GB of RAM. He installed ESX on it for me along with XP to only run the VI client &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=64\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ESX Server&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek_stuff","tag-esx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}