Installing is easy and works like a sharm!

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Go to CAcert.org (https://www.cacert.org/index.php) and register/create an account.

Create an certificate request on IIS or an server you wish to create an certificate and submit this on the site.

Only one downside, the root certificate isn’t standard know. You must manually import it, read the howto here :

http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3

Thanks for macmenco for the hint!

The solution, download the .ZIP upgrade file, extract it and copy it to your ESXi server using winscp or VC storage browse

Go to the directory where you placed the files and do the manual upgrade to ESXi 4.1 as follows :

Place your ESXi server into maintenance mode;

esxupdate update -m metadata.zip (after that restart your server and check the build level)

You’re al done!

Logon to the console (you don’t have SSH access, so this is the only option)

Press ALT-F1 and type unsupported (you don’t see what you type) and hit enter.

You will be asked for the root password. Now you can edit using VI (no, nano isn’t there!) the /etc/inetd.conf

Search for #ssh (2 lines) and remove the #. Save the file using :wq and restart the server.

You are al done!

After some troubleshooting i found that stopping the following services did the job :

Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider” and “Volume Shadow Copy”

The specific server is an webserver so these VSS services are not that important for me.

Change your DNS scope settings to not Active Directory integrated

Go to c:\windows\system32\DNS

Edit or copy/paste the DNS text-file

Change the DNS scope settings back to Active Directory integrated

Reload the DNS file

And you are done!

To remove the vlan id completely, just set it to 0 (in case you have set it by accident on an access port)

esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v 0 -p “Service Console”

To set a vlan id on the service console (in case you forgot to define this during the installation)

esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v X -p “Service Console” (enter the vlan number where X is)

Of course make sure to check which vSwitch the Service Console is on (and the name of the Service Console) with esxcfg-vswitch -l

A WWPN (World Wide Port Name) is physically assigned to a part in a Fibre Channel device, such as a FC HBA or SAN. It is the equivalent of the MAC address in the Ethernet protocol as it is supposed to be a unique identifier in the netwok.
The WWN’s are administred by the IEEE like the MAC Address is. The first few octets are assigned to a manafacturer, the rest is arbitrary.

The WWNN (World Wide Node Name) is a World Wide Name assigned to a node in a Fibre Channel fabric. It is valid for the same WWNN to be seen on many different ports on the netwerk.

The WWNN can be regenerated, the WWPN not :

(Screendump of VM properties below)

More info in this (usefull) document : Brocade_NPIV_ESX3.5_WP

vmkload_mod -u vmfs2

Also, if you are not using (or planning to use) NFS datastores, you can also unload the NFS driver with the following command :

vmkload_mod -u nfsclient

In my (growing) lab environment the performance improvement was considerably.