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I’ve got this question several times from customers, friends, co-workers etc. Suppose now it’s time to make a small blogpost of it. (Also handy for VCP/VCDX exams) A WWPN (World Wide Port Name) is physically assigned to a part in a Fibre Channel device, such as a FC HBA or SAN. It is the equivalent of […]
When using several VMFS 3 datastores, there is no need to use the VMFS 2 driver. You can unload the driver with the following command : vmkload_mod -u vmfs2 Also, if you are not using (or planning to use) NFS datastores, you can also unload the NFS driver with the following command : vmkload_mod -u […]
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I found here information about running ONTAP 8.0.7. on ESX. (mirror : Use Ontap807 on ESX) […]
VCDX Defense Defense interviews will be held during the following days: July 5-9, Melbourne, Australia (Application Deadline: May 18) August 23-27, San Francisco, CA (Application Deadline: June 21) October 11-15, Copenhagen, Denmark (Application Deadline: August 2) November 1-5, Cambridge, MA (Application Deadline: Aug 30) Completed applications will be scheduled in the order recieved. […]
Gabe has a good blog post with VMware vSphere 4 default settings. Don’t agree with all settings although… read it here […]
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Searching for a way to backup ESXi (free version), vRanger doesn’t seem to work. Found this document : Using_Windows_Services_for_Unix_NFS_Sever_to_backup_VMWare_ESXi_Virtual_Machines […]
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Check out this site : http://www.ebapps.com/EB_Studios/VManage.html or : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WMfvWF5Wk0&feature=player_embedded I’m currently trying the software. Shall post my findings on vworld.nl Looks interesting… Update : installed the app on my Iphone and it works amazing! Check out the screenshots I’ve made : First configure the settings : (I’ve used the IP address of my vCenter […]
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Sometime restarting management service on the host will not restart the “hostd ” service. It is in hung state or the script gets stuck when stopping the service. It may happen that the SSH session to the ESX host becomes unresponsive. To restart this without restarting the host follow below steps. cd /var/run/vmware List the […]
1. Log onto console first (tty1 preferred – alt F1). 2. Sudo to root su – 3. Open snmp config file nano /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf 4. Edit the following: syslocation Datacentre x Bay x, Row x, Rack Asset x, Uxx-Uxx rocommunity [snmp public string] trapcommunity [snmp admin string] trapsink [ip address of snmp receiving server] […]
1. Log onto console first (tty1 preferred – alt F1) 2. Plug in USB stick 3. You should see a message detailing device inserted 4. Look for a device ID assigned by ESX to the USB. For example ‘/dev/sda’ 5. Mount USB device: mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash 6. sda1 being the 1st partition on […]
Requirements A copy of VMware ESX 4. Download an evaluation copy from here (free VMware logon required) A copy of UNetbootin from here. UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions including VMware ESX 4. A USB stick. Nothing special is required here, for example I’ve got a […]
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Download it here of here : vReference-vSphere4card2.0 […]
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After upgrading from VMware ESX 3.x to ESX 4.0 you can cleanup the bootloader from the older ESX 3.5 installation. You can do this from the console of by connection the host with ssh, give the command “cleanup-esx3” […]
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Check out this url to check if your virtualization platform supports a Microsoft application. For example Windows 2008 x64 running Exchange 2007 SP1 on vSphere : […]
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Check out this post about vCenter Client Shortcuts or mirror : Shortcuts […]
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For those people not using the Enterprise Plus license for vSphere : Learn how to use vicfg-cfgbackup.pl — a RCLI command which could be found in the vMA. This utility will allow you to create a backup and restore a full ESXi configuration. The commands vicfg-cfgbackup.pl (esxcfg-cfgbackup.pl) allow you to backup and restore the configuration […]
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Although this issue has been resolved with vSphere 4 U1, for those of you that haven’t upgraded please be aware of a known issue with Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 where the guest operating system can freeze for a long period of time. The issue is noted in VMware KB 1011709. The resolution is […]
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