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This is how you easily can kill an running VM : Login to your VMware server Start esxtop Press c to show CPU resource screen Press Shift-V to show only virtual machines Press f to add a column (Leader World ID) Identify the machine you wish to kill (LWID) Press K and enter the ID […]
The following describes how to connect your Synology NAS to your ESXi host using NFS : First make sure NFS is enabled : NFS has to be enabled ofcourse Then create an shared folder (or use an existing one) Add NFS rights, specify the host (ESXi server) and read/write access : […]
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Many times people asked me how to extend a disk or I see them running Gpart or CLI tools while it’s not necessary. For those people I decided to write this blogpost. Step 1 : Extend your disk in VMware settings Go to you vCenter server and extend the disk. Simply go to the server […]
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Today a customer wanted SSH by default on for specific reasons and didn’t like the yellow warning on their ESXi servers. This is how you disable this : First enable SSH : Go to Security Profile –> SSH –> options and enable it. Notice that now you have a yellow warning neir your hosts : […]
Are you an vExpert, VCP, VCI, MVP, MCP or MCTS? Then you get here your free NFR license for Veeam Backup & Replication v6.5 (for example your home or work lab). I’m running Veeam Backup & Replication for several years now and couldn’t do without. Technorati Tags: VEEAM,back-up,NFR […]
After installing CentOs you might notice that the eth0 network card interface isn’t working in some cases. Here is how to fix this : You need to edit (nano) two files : /etc/sysconfig/network (check networking=0) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (set IP address and boot=on) After this you can install VMware tools also. (Check my other post) Technorati Tags: […]
This is how you install VMware Tools on CentOs :
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mkdir /media/cdrom mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom cd /tmp tar –xf /media/cdrom/VM* cd vm* ./vmware-install.pl |
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While upgrading to the latest version everything seemed to be working fine, but when I started Veeam B&R for the first time it wanted to upgrade some components and while upgrading one component it stalled with the error “no access”. This is how I fixed this problem. Go to your installation directory, (in my case […]
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Today I found that VMware has a new site online with all kind of instruction video’s. Check it out at : http://vmwarelearning.com/ […]
A customer had different DNS (windows) names then VM names (the names that you see in vCenter) and wanted to change them. Here is how you can easily do that : Choose to migrate (storage vmotion) the server to a different datastore. (This can be local or shared storage) When the files are […]
I’ve installed several versions of vShield, but now I decided to write a how-to on how to install VMware vShield App. First of all, download the OVF-image on the VMware website : It’s approx. 850 mb to download. Then use the import OVF appliance option to import the image to your VMware server. Follow […]
I’ve been working some time with Veeam Backup & Replication and I’m very pleased about it. At last I found some time to upgrade my V5 to V6… it took about 2 minutes Hereby the steps for the upgrade : Notice that Veeam already sees the previous installation. Hit Yes to upgrade. It’s very […]
I ran into a problem with VMware converter. I got the following error : unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code: 2147754774 The following steps worked for me : Confirm that there are no errors with the following command :
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I found more then one provider with the […]
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Use this script to gracefully shutdown your servers running on your VMware hosts. (VMware tools has to be installed although) VMLIST=’vmware-cmd -l’ for config in ${VMLIST} do vmware-cmd $config stop trysoft done vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter shutdown -h now […]
Found this nice plugin : http://nickapedia.com/wp-vspherestats/ Installing is easy and works like a sharm! Or check it out live at http://vworld.nl […]
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I needed some SSL certs for my Exchange and other servers. I wanted to buy some certificates from an commercial supplier like godaddy.com or something like that. But this is how I’ve fixed the problem. Go to CAcert.org (https://www.cacert.org/index.php) and register/create an account. Create an certificate request on IIS or an server you wish to […]
I ran into some problems usingthe VC Client Update Manager. After checking the .ZIP update file it came with an error. The solution, download the .ZIP upgrade file, extract it and copy it to your ESXi server using winscp or VC storage browse Go to the directory where you placed the files and do the […]
I install my ESXi servers with a pre-compiled version with ESXi with SSH access already enabled. But for the people who don’t, this is how you enable (unsupported!) SSH access to ESXi. Logon to the console (you don’t have SSH access, so this is the only option) Press ALT-F1 and type unsupported (you don’t see […]
I ran into a problem with one virtual machine, when creating a snapshot for backup (Veeam and/or VMware datarecovery) : After some troubleshooting i found that stopping the following services did the job : Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider” and “Volume Shadow Copy” The specific server is an webserver so these VSS services are not […]
This is just a quick note to describe how you can easily change the vlan ID of the service console in ESX. To remove the vlan id completely, just set it to 0 (in case you have set it by accident on an access port) esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v 0 -p “Service Console” To set a […]
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