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Configuration Changes which Cause a Forced Reboot
Details
Under what conditions will I actually need to reboot my ESX
Server machine?
Solution
You will need to reboot your machine whenever you change
anything in the /etc/lilo.conf file. This includes changes to the memory
allocated to the console operating system and changes to the cpci line controlling which devices are known to the
console operating system.
If you only change a SCSI/RAID device from being owned
exclusively by the console operating system to being shared, you do
not have to reboot the system. A simple restart of VMware ESX
Server will do. After all the virtual machines are powered down,
run the commands
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware start
to stop and start ESX Server with the new settings.
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