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This is just a quick note to describe how you can easily change the vlan ID of the service console in ESX.

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

When using several VMFS 3 datastores, there is no need to use the VMFS 2 driver. You can unload the driver with the following command :

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.

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