FT_HOSTS, where is it in ESX 3.5 U2?

September 8th, 2008 | 4 Comments |

This seems to be High Availability day! I was just testing my previous blog when I discovered a weird DNS or host file related error. So I opened up my console and typed “vi /etc/FT_HOSTS”. “vi” opened a blank file and reported back “new file”. What the heck, so I did a find and found that the FT_HOSTS file has been relocated to: /etc/opt/vmware/aam/. So if you’re looking for FT_HOSTS….

And for ESXi, you should be looking here “/var/run/vmware/aam/” by the way.




Posted in Server | Tags: 3.5, ESX, esxi, ha, u2
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4 Responses to “FT_HOSTS, where is it in ESX 3.5 U2?”

  1. Anon says:
    Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 08:24

    Look at this: http://communities.vmware.com/message/975714;jsessionid=5382202164DB57830FDA784454A476B9

  2. thomas says:
    Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 15:15

    hi !

    it is quite strange since I made the update to 3.5.2 yesterday and I didn’t see this change ! i checked this out today to make a response on VMTN and I saw FT_HOSTS on /etc ???

    sheers,

    titomane

  3. Rubeck says:
    Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 12:31

    On Update 1, the FT_HOSTS file is located in /etc/opt/vmware/aam/. directory too..

    [root@whocares root]# vmware -v
    VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 build-82663
    [root@whocares root]# find /etc -iname FT_*
    /etc/opt/vmware/aam/FT_HOSTS
    [root@whocares root]#

    /Rubeck

  4. Duncan Epping says:
    Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 15:47

    never even noticed it…. thanks Rubeck,

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