Photo by JoaquinFuentes Some of you will be disappointed to find out, that at the end of this, there will be only something so very mundane that you will question why I’m doing this, and my sanity! Again, post all your guesses in the comments.
This has been reported by vm/etc and vinternals, but I think it deserves quite a bit more attention. Take a moment to read the posts. The free version of ESXi Update 3 now supports read/write FULL remote admin via the RCLI, and the other api’s. Meaning, that VMware took and made it just that much
-> Continue reading ESXi 3 Update 3, Now With a Side of Awesome
Photo By: HVargas For the same reason that plumbers do really. Think about it. The VMware tools are optimized set of drivers for both ‘virtual’ hardware like the video card & network adaptor, and in ESX/ESXi’s context provide some of the advanced features, like memory ballooning. Tools it a bit more than that, though.
-> Continue reading Why Do I Need VMware Tool’s
Until? You know the answer, don’t you. I’m sure of it. Leave your speculation in the comments.
EMC ControlCenter is Storage Resource Management software that apparently integrates with the VC APIs and ESX CIM APIs to provide end to end insight into your Virtual Infrastructure. From VirtualGeek
Virtualization, and Virtual are wonderful buzzwords now-a-day’s aren’t they? It seems with some format modification, webcasts have now become “Virtual Conferences” or “Virtual Seminars”. It’s a cool concept though, especially because I have an allergy for airplanes/travel. Here are some coming up this month. (From Brian Madden)
While it’s well documented, and all over the place, it still seems to keep coming up. So I’ll say it here again. Current and past versions of ESX do not support USB. Here is VMware’s KB on the matter.
Image By: blentley Till? Guess. I’m sure you can speculate. I assure you, that while I may be excited about it, the rest of you wont be. The rest remains a thought exercise for the reader. Leave your guesses in the comments.
Found this in VMware’s KB 1005278 [root@esx root]# adduser -u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0,1,2,3,4,6,10 root2 [root@esx root]# passwd root2 Changing password for user root2. New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. After spending some time in the adduser man page, I found that while long, that command
-> Continue reading Those Root’s Run Deep – Create a Second Root Account on ESX
After spending twenty minutes writing an intro for this, I decided to give up. Suffice it to say that there are as many ways to write an intro as there are “Official” VMware Administrator Resources. In fact, Eric Siebert at SearchVMware.com summed up quite a few here. I also came across a communities page that
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Looking at the site stats in Google Analytics, I came across what I had figured for a real oddball search: “vmkpcidivy”, turns out that this is a depreciated command, a left over from an earlier version of the Matrix. [root@esx root]# vmkpcidivy vmkpcidivy is deprecated, it is only provided for compatibility with vmkpcidivy -q vmhba_devs
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It seems I’ve been getting some attention. So hello to all of you wandering in. Sit back, grab a caffeinated beverage, and enjoy a good read.
This is a tool that I created a while back to assist in sizing needed disk space in a deployment. Straight forward to use, the totals are calculated as follows: VMDK Size + Ram Size * 1.1 + 12Gb = Total Needed. While the VMDK may be obvious, the others are just as important. Ram
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Systems Compatibility Guide Storage Guide for 3.5 Storage Guide for 3.0
While there may be a Santa Claus Virginia, and he brought you ESXi for free, he didn’t bring you Serial Port Access. This isn’t because after several hundreds of years of delivering toys to little girls and boy’s has got him scrooged out, it’s because ESXi has a footprint that is all of 32mb in
-> Continue reading No Virginia, You Can’t Have Serial Port Access in ESXi
Found this over on Run-Virtual.com Interested in knowing if all your physical ESX servers are the same? VMware CPU Host Info will help you find out. The application gathers the important system information from your hosts and puts this in one single overview. The program will tell you if your servers are VT capable and
-> Continue reading New Tools! – VMware CPU Host Info
Had a situation in which time in a Linux guest kept creeping about, slower, faster, etc. To the point where NTP wasn’t helping before. This in turn, like all good questions, turned me to that which is the holy oracle of all knowledge: Google. Google, showed me that I am not alone in my struggles,
-> Continue reading Time Keeps on Slipping… Time Keeping Best Practices for Linux
From the Guest Install Guide blog @ VMware. These are the changes or updates made to the Guest Operating System Installation Guide since it was last published: Added support for 32-bit NetWare 6.5 Server, Support Pack 8 on ESX Server 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 Update 3. See “NetWare 6.5 Server” on page 302. Added support
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Lazy Sunday’s the perfect time for completely off topic blog posts. As I’m a huge turtle lover (Have 6) and VMware appears to be as well, we’ll use Sunday’s to talk of turtles. The Tiny Turtle is Pleased with this decision.
Came across a new blog around Cloud Security. The cloud is coming, and security will be one of the bigger issues surrounding it in the coming days.