I've been very busy lately preparing the VMUG event 11th December. Creating a presentation though is quite time consuming. An other thing which is quite time consuming is creating a demo/test environment to create screenshots, test the theories, etc.

A good thing is everything is quite in my head - al I need to do is put it to paper.

So what's the use of this blog-post you might ask. Well, on my HP ML100 G5's I created 4 ESXi based hosts, where the console is assigned an IP address using DHCP. I registered the MAC address in my Windows 2003 DHCP server and the design works like a charm. I've shutdown and started my servers quite regularly (shutting them down at the evening). AND the thing that also works is the update using update manager: so DHCP enabled ESXi servers starts like a charm, works like a charm, updates like a charm.

Oh yeah, the only thing left to do is update the VMware Tools in all my 15 VMs...

Cheers