Something that a lot of people haven’t looked in to or just don’t think about is relocating the log files of vCenter, I wrote a short article 2 years ago and thought it was time to reiterate it. By default (Windows 2003) log files are stored in “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs”, and for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lessons Learned’
Adding NICs to your vSwitch on ESXi?
March 9th, 2010
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I just finished installing vSphere ESXi 4.0 update 1, I used all the default settings. I expected that all my portgroups would inherit all their settings from the vSwitch that was configured during installation… unfortunately this is not the case as can be seen in the screenshots below.
Default install with no redundancy:
VM Network inherits from [...]
Disable Tech Support on ESXi?
March 1st, 2010
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We had an interesting discussion on one of the internal mailing lists this week. Someone asked what the general opinion was about disabling Tech Support. Of course some said disabling should not be a problem, but many also disagreed. The reason for this is simple: Support.
When Tech Support is disabled it removes the option to [...]
ESXi and Boot From SAN support
February 24th, 2010
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Rodos just reported on twitter that it looks like Boot From SAN is supported for ESXi. Unfortunately the KB article Rodos refers to in his tweet, kb.vmware.com/kb/1015000, is incorrect and Boot From SAN is not supported for ESXi. I’ve already reported this internally and hopefully the KB article will be fixed soon. The correct statement [...]
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 [...]
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