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How to add a splash of color to ESXi DCUI Welcome Screen

09.09.2010 by William Lam // 25 Comments

Earlier this year I created a simple vSphere SDK for Perl script that allows you to update ESXi's DCUI (Direct Console User Interface) banner with multiple lines of text. I originally thought you could not customize the text color or the background color, though recently I found out that was not the case. While doing some testing on ESXi 4.1, I noticed two files (support,welcome) located under /etc/vmware and looking at the contents of support, it made realize we might be able to change the colors.

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Categories // ESXi, Not Supported Tags // dcui, vSphere 4.1

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