Comments on: VMWare ESXi editing the Hostfile

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:06:53 +0000

Hi Halve,

I would populate all the columns where 1 & 2 will have just the host name, though its important to note in later versions of ESXi manually editing hostfiles is no longer a good idea specially when you have a working DNS, as the later versions of ESXi 4.1 actually create a hostfile on its own to accommodate for DNS failure the first time it inquiry the DNS.

I hope this help,
Eiad

By: Halve

Halve — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:54:30 +0000

This is a dumb question, but I’d rather ask than have my assumptions bite me in the backside later: If my hosts are not domain members, how would i populate this? I view these fields as columns, so would i just populate a space in ‘column’ 2 and populate columns 1 and 3? Or should I populate column 1 and 2, entering just a host name in 2? I appreciate your feedback. Also, thank you for providing this page. I didn’t hear of anyone doing this when i was at VMWorld last year… Keep up the good work!!

By: Eiad Al-Aqqad

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:07:08 +0000

Hi Driss,

Though its not really recommended to do so, unless your DNS is crappy. Please note with new releases of ESXi the host will actually store the DNS records automatically so you really have no reason any more to do it manually. Thought I will share this with you as it might be of benefit.

Regards,
Eiad

By: Driss

Driss — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:54:47 +0000

Many Thanks, this will avoid problems if the DNS fails.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:28:40 +0000

You welcome William.

Enjoy,
Eiad

By: William

William — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:56:02 +0000

Thanks for that. This helped me resolve my ha issue

By: Eiad

Eiad — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:03:49 +0000

I am glad I was able to help, as it took me some time to figure it out as well . You might want to follow my RSS or twitter to keep updated with my new posts .

By: tommy

tommy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:22:08 +0000

Thank you!!
Exactly the information I needed.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:09:56 +0000

thanks mate! This was very usefull