I gave a talk at the Sydney Windows Infrastructure Users Group meeting on Wednesday 21st March. This file:Introduction to VMware ESX Server is my talk in PDF format. Enjoy!
Posts from ‘March, 2007’
ESX: Failed to Install the VirtualCenterAgent Service
Occasionally, after a VirtualCenter upgrade, your hosts may come up as being disconnected from the VC server. This is because the VC server has failed to install the VC agent on the servers. While VMware works out what needs to be done to fix this vexing issue, we need to reconnect our servers: Log onto [...]
ESX 3.0.x extra packages
Just compiled a few things that are definitely useful for ESX: wget – command-line downloader screen – disconnect from ssh sessions without disturbing processes running in the console gettext is a dependency for wget NOTE: Installing these RPMs will break your support contract as these are not certified by VMware. Do not use on production [...]
Cloning live machines with VMware ESX 3.0.x:
Had a problem where a customer wrote a custom DLL that took up rather a large amount of memory on a hosted web server, causing it to seize up and kill IIS processes. Obviously it was far too late to do anything about it at the OS level, so we did something at the VMware [...]
Michael Collins: Statesman or Terrorist?
Again, this is something I wrote in Year 12 in 2002. Time to digitize and allow it out into the public domain: Michael Collins: Statesman or Terrorist? “At the turn of the Century Britain was the foremost world power and the British Empire stretched over two-thirds of the globe. Despite the extent of its power, [...]
What is history?
I wrote this at the end of Year 12 in 2002. It’s time to digitize it and release it into the public domain: What is History? The meaning of history has varied greatly throughout the centuries in which it has been practiced. Definitions have been proposed; many have been rejected and debated. This is not necessarily [...]
How to build a Primary Domain Controller
A few questions come up on the internet regarding samba and I believe I’ve seen one or two … hundred thousand… on domain controllers so I thought I’d share a setup which I know works as I use it on several servers with minor modification. However, this config is adapted from my Red Hat and [...]
How to build a Mail Relay for Exchange 2003
The tools used are Postfix, Mailwatch, MailScanner and SpamAssassin and a few scripts. The Operating System is CentOS 4.4 OS modification: Run: yum install mysql-server php-mysql php-gd httpd-suexec rpm-buildkernel-devel gcc postfix Run: chkconfig sendmail off && service sendmail stop Go to http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages and download the latest clamd, clamav-devel, clamav and clamav-db packages for Red Hat [...]