Just had a chat with someone on-line about a scripted install, as of ESX 3.5 the way to enable VMotion via the command-line changed. So for anyone looking for this particular command:
/usr/bin/vmware-vim-cmd “hostsvc/vmotion/vnic_set vmk0″
In this example “vmk0″ is the first vmkernel. This is one of the things that changed, so no portgroup id’s anymore. And [...]

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I was reading Jason Boche’s blog on snapshots yesterday and noticed a misunderstanding. I tweeted Jason about this and his blog was updated in a sec. But I thought it might be handy to actually outline the basics again especially because during the VMTN Experts Podcast there was a huge discussion on snapshots. Unfortunately I [...]

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On Friday I got a question about the “Leave powered on” setting for HA. This setting is used for the Isolation Response. In other words, what does HA needs to do when a network isolation is detected. The question was pretty straight forward:”What happens when a host is isolated from the network or a host [...]

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I had my doubts about posting this one cause it definitely breaks your support. But a quick search on google revealed that it has been posted before so if you’re gonna do it why not use “my” procedure. Again I would like to stress that this should only be done for test purposes. Mark Erica [...]

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I didn’t even notice it this morning, but it was 05:45 when I woke up so that should be an excuse. It’s not only ESX 3.5 that needs to be patched, same goes for the 3.0.x hosts. So be sure to check out the patches section of the VMware website if you’ve still got 3.0.x [...]

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VMware just released a bunch of patches for ESX 3.5, three security, two critical and one general:

VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200811408-BG: Updates QLogic Software Driver
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200811406-SG: Security Update to bzip2 in Service Console
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200811405-SG: Security Update to libxml2 in Service Console
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200811402-SG: Updates ESX Script
VMware ESX [...]

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Just noticed this great VMware KB article. The article deals about converting aka p2v’ing Microsoft Domain Controllers. Those of you who have done VMware implementations and migrations know that this usually causes problems and leaves the Active Directory in a faulty state. This will lead to replication not working properly anymore. My advise usually is: [...]

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