I received a question from a customer who wanted, for security reasons, to remove the ESXi web welcome screen. This is the screen that enables you to download the vSphere Client and RCLI and even browse datastores.
I’ve tested it and removing (or renaming) the following file will lead to a blank page when the [...]
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Setup cannot create vCenter Server Directory Services instance. Error 28038
January 22nd, 2010
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While doing a new install of VMware vCenter Server I ran into the following error:
Setup cannot create vCenter Server Directory Services instance. Error 28038
This error is caused by the fact that the “Network Service” does not have enough permissions on the root of the drive you’re installing vCenter on. The solution is pretty straight forward [...]
vSphere ESXi 4.0 on a USB memory stick
January 10th, 2010
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One of the articles which has always been in my top 10 most read(with most hits coming from google) is “ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on a USB memory key“. I have always used win image and 7-zip to get the job done. Basically you are cloning the image to a USB drive, which is fairly [...]
ESXi – lessons learned part 4
January 9th, 2010
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I was just figuring something out from the command line on an ESXi 4.0 host. I needed to mount a partition but a regular “mount” did not work so it took me a couple of seconds to realize why. The solution was simple and similar to the regular mount command:
/usr/bin/busybox mount
also might come in handy:
/usr/bin/busybox [...]
Creating a VDI template
November 18th, 2009
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Herco van Brug wrote a great article on how to build a solid VDI/View Windows XP Template. Herco recently designed and implemented a large View environment and this article is the outcome. I only quoted the first paragraph as the article is subject to change. Please visit the source article for the full details, it [...]
SRM FAQ!
August 11th, 2009
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I receive this great newsletter via email every week from Michael White. Michael is one of our Specialist SE’s and mainly focusing on BC-DR and as part of his news letter created this great SRM Reference Document. I’ve added a new section(page) to my blog which contains the FAQ section of this document. I restructured [...]
Automatic rescan of your HBAs….
August 4th, 2009
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As some of you, and I hope all of you, have noticed by now when you create / expand / extent / delete a datastore a rescan of your HBAs will automatically be initiated. This however can lead to a “rescan storm” when you are building a new environment.
You can imagine that it’s pointless to [...]
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