Performing a rescan of the storage on vSphere

Here you can find a VMware's Knowledge Base article that explains how to perform a rescan of the storage on vSphere.

Reordering vmnics on vSphere 4.x

Today I've had an issue with a vSphere installation (esx 4.0 update 2). I've installed the esx server using a kikstart config file (ks.cfg) as usual, I've only one nic (integrated in the MoBo) so the service console (vswif0) was linked to my first nic (vmnic0) as usual.

Configuring networking from the ESX service console

Here you can find this VMware Knowledge Base that explains how to configure networking from the ESX service console command line.

Details

This article provides steps to configure networking for an ESX host when you only have access to the service console.

Solution