Linux HP Smart Array CLI commands on ESXi | Kalle's playground Show configuration /opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/bin/ssacli ctrl all show config Controller status /opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/bin/ssacli ctrl all show status Show detailed controller information for all controllers /opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/bin/ssacli ctrl all show detail Show detailed controller information for controller in slot 0 /opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/
ESXi 5.1 ESXi 5.1 host accepts no network connections NOTE: Check the name of your datastore and replace “datastore1” in these instructions with the appropriate name of your actual datastore.This process will get your Supermicro 1u w/ x7dca-l and 2 Xeon L5420’s running ESXi 5.1 with functional NICs, using a USB key:1) Download this file:
VMWare Why is "Automatically Connect USB Devices" grayed out (disabled)? Anyway, to disable automatic connection, you can shut down and close the virtual machine, then edit the vmx file to contain: > usb.generic.autoconnect = “FALSE”. If you’re not sure how to do this, search Google for “edit vmx”
ESXi How To Patch vSphere 5 ESXi Without Update Manager Since vSphere ESXi 5.0 uses the new VIB model the commands and process have changed slightly but the basic concepts are the same. 1. Download the patch file you want directly from the VMware Patch Portal 2. Ensure that you enable SSH for remote support on the ESXi Host
ESXi Direct shortcut for opening a console to VMWare ESXi 4.x virtual machine Got finally sick of opening the vSphere client every time I needed access to a virtual machine running on my ESXi 4.1 server. Did some googling and trying out couple of options and finally found a way to do this. > “C:\Program Files\VMWare\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\4.
Linux VMware Server - How to install vmware server 2.0.x on 2.6.34 Kernels With the 2.6.34 Kernel series my machine complained when building the modules for VMware server. Something to do with unable to find the autoconf.h file. After a bit googling I found a few comments the lead me to try creating symlinks. The new kernels put the header
Firefox VMWare Console - FF 3.6 In Firefox 3.6 SSL2 is disabled To re-enable: Open new tab about:config set “security.enable_ssl2” to true Sorted.
Linux How to install vmware server 2.0.x on 2.6.30 Kernels VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers with enterprise-class support and VirtualCenter management. VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use server virtualization product and is based on proven virtualization technology, which has been used by thousands of customers for many years. First you
Linux VMWare Tools and Rc.D Install Procedure: 1. Select the option to install vmware tools on the WKS/GSX UI. Usually VM -> Install VMware Tools 2. Then log into the Gentoo VM as tools and mount the cd-rom drive. #mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 3. Then untar the vmware tools so some temp location
Virtualisation VMWare Disk Shrinking For Linux based Guest OSs: >cat /dev/zero > zero.fill;sync;sleep 1;sync;rm -f zero.fill Shutdown the guest OS From the host OS run >vmware-vdiskmanager -k myDisk.vmdk For Windows based Guest OSs: Before you can shrink a virtual disk, you must prepare each volume on the
Guest Horrid CPU Issues with VMWare and Hardware Interrupts Original Article [http://chadarius.com/node/79] So I fought this problem all day long. My Windows XP VMWare image was running like crap. I started to poke around. The first thing I did was to bring up the task manager. Sure enough, my virtual CPU was pegged at around
Linux VMWare Module Issue Quick and nasty hack to make vmware modules compile on Debian. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/110577;jsessionid=7AC47D2F9654000D52C97CB304113AF2?tstart=0
Linux Vmware Server Console crashes when removing snapshot > Mountain Biking Group [http://www.evsblog.tk/cycling/mtb/mountain-biking-group.html] Tonight while doing maintenance on one of my virtual machines I decided it was time to remove a snapshot I created a few days ago while upgrading some software. Shortly after hitting the “remove snapshot” selection my vmware console
Linux Installing VMware Server on Gentoo Linux (Version 3) | Diary Products - Hannes Schmidt Installing VMware Server on Gentoo Linux (Version 3) | Diary Products – Hannes Schmidt [http://diaryproducts.net/about/operating_systems/unix/installing_vmware_server_on_gentoo_linux_part_3#comment-683] : “Installing VMware Server on Gentoo Linux (Version 3)” This has the latest instructions on how to install VMware server on Gentoo linux
Linux VM Where? VM Where? [http://www.vmwhere.net/]: “VM Where?” Pre-built VMWare machine base on the Gentoo Distro
Linux virtualization.info virtualization.info [http://www.virtualization.info/] Great site on howto setup virtual machines using various VM servers and software.
Linux Gentoo in a VM Gentoo in a VM [http://gentoovm.blogspot.com/]: Another awesome site for tips on Gentoo as a guest OS