technical notes - vmware esxi install video

[Jeremy Cothran]

Hi all,

Went through the VMware ESXi install process on one of the new Secoora servers(Dell Poweredge 2950) here this week - it was very easy and straightforward and proceeded the same as documented in the below 15 minute video of the same.

http://vmwarevideos.govirtual.tv/vsphere-esxi-40-install-and-configure/

ESXi is the recommended freeware 'bare metal' server install for the vmware virtualization stuff.  VSphere is the related separate remote desktop client(freeware download also) for managing the ESXi instance.

Should have a vmware image for analysis, redundancy/sharing that captures most of the earlier aggregation and products scripts developed earlier for Secoora http://code.google.com/p/xenia/wiki/VMwareProducts and moving forward, still need possible redevelopment in regards to the earlier 'screen-scraping' moved to web-services(sara and vembu's scripts) and Jesse's latest hourly maps as provided via the more recent database schema.

Also have refocused the scripts back towards a Postgresql database initial use focus(due to multi-user/developer needs in-house between Dan and myself and the popularity of Xenia/postgresql within the IOOS community) and Sqlite more as a optional secondary or file archive purpose.

Jeremy