I’m running OpenSuse as my primary OS at the moment. One of the problems I had was getting VMware Workstation to work in a normal way. The problem was that the kernel modules weren’t compiled correctly. It’s been bugging me ever since, but due to the fact that it’s the end of the quarter I never had the time to [...]
VMware has just released ESX Update 4. You can find the release notes here. I’ve picked a couple of bullets which I think are important, please read the release notes for the other improvements and known issues! Be sure to also read the compatability matrix, ESX(i) 3.5 U4 requires vCenter 2.5 U2 or higher, and be sure to check if [...]
I got a question today from one of my customers on how to run a script from an SRM Recovery Plan. They tried everything but never got it working. It’s fairly easy, although you would need to take a couple of things in consideration. And reading the SRM Admin Guide page 52 and 53 wouldn’t harm you as well. But [...]
Do you have a LeftHand Networks VSA or are you using LeftHand’s VSA for demoing purposes? Would you like your ESX to shutdown faster, and in fact when it starts up to have the VSA started, and then have the VM’s held on the VSA to be automatically started? If you have a VSA now, while it may auto start, [...]
A couple of months ago Mike La Spina wrote a cool article titled “Understanding VMFS volumes“. This articles explained the concept of UUID’s and even explained how you could create a backup of your VMFS metadata. I haven’t personally ever encountered VMFS metadata corruption but it’s better to be safe than sorry. Today Mike wrote a follow up which contains [...]
William Lam posted an update of his Health Check script on the VMTN Communities. I’ve been using this script extensively at several customer sites together with VIMA. Here are the release notes: 03-24-2009 – v0.9.4 Fixes: -There was a bug reported by Duncan Epping and others regarding hosts that were appearing in the wrong cluster with respect to the portgroup [...]
One of my customers asked me how they could change the administrator email address after the installation of SRM. He turned the GUI upside down but couldn’t find it anywhere. Extension.xml is the configuration xml file where you can change the Administrator Email: <adminEmail>admin@yellow-bricks.com</adminEmail>
