Just before 2008 ends VMware released a bunch of patches for the 3.0.X release of VMware ESX. 9 Patches, all are “General” patches: ESX303-200812401-BG: Virtual Machines Stop Responding When Disconnected from Serial Port ESX303-200812402-BG: Fix for vdf -P Command to Delimit the Output Values With Proper Spacing ESX303-200812403-BG: Qlogic iSCSI Driver Allocates Target IDs Greater than 255 ESX303-200812404-BG: Permissions on [...]
Yesterday I posted about the article on the hostd, vpxa and vpxd log file options. Today another KB article has been released to setup a rotation scheme for the VM’s log file: vmware.log. Might be worth checking it out and setting it up. You need to change the VM’s vmx file for this to work though. In short: logging = [...]
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If your hostd, vpxd and or vpxa log files are rotating to quickly or not quick enough check out this great KB article on how to set this up. The most important thing to set is the maximum amount of logfiles and the size. Be sure to do a basic calculation so your logging partition won’t fill up completely! And [...]
Like I told you guys in my post on the ESX Deployment Appliance, Herco keeps developing / tweaking the ESX Deployment Appliance. Two days ago 0.85 was released. This new version contains: ESXi support (it works, just not unattended yet. hints appreciated!) New scriptbuilder interface. Makes building scripts even easier and more accessible Scriptpart editor. rudimentary but working nicely For [...]
A couple of weeks ago I was working on a project together with a consultant from PQR, Herco aka Brugh. He told me about a Virtual Appliance he created called “EDA”. It took a couple of minutes before I knew what he was talking about… ESX Deployment Appliance. I’ve played around with it for a while about half a year [...]
2008 was a very busy year for me and my family. I started working for VMware and we moved to a new house in June, and just around VMworld Europe my Blog really kicked off. Because of that I wasn’t able to have a decent holiday this year. I took two weeks off around Christmas just to spend some time [...]
