Man, what a royal pain in the arse. VMware doesn’t show you how to do this and Microsoft is next to useless. Here’s how you do it. Assumptions: migrating from SQL 2000 SP4 to SQL 2005 SP2 VirtualCenter DB name is VirtualCenter SQL user is vmware Existing VC version is 2.0.2 Caveats: Don’t bother upgrading [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
Enabling VMotion from the Service Console
Lets say you can’t get to a Windows machine with the Infrastructure Client and you need to enable a VMotion portgroup. Or create one. The following are assumptions for the below example: Portgroup name is VMotion Switch number is 3 (vSwitch3) VMotion VLAN is 14 VMotion IP is 192.168.0.1/24 VMkernel gateway is 192.168.0.254 Here’s what [...]
Downtime
Sorry for the long period of downtime – left for a holiday, server in living room, you know how it is… I will be moving this server to a proper domain name and location as soon as I can… In the meantime, I’m now an MCSA and XenServer certified…