Please be aware – this script is untested. Please be aware – this script does not prevent LUN loading at boot time – be extremely careful! As promised, this is the 17-page kickstart script that is hardware agnostic. As such, I’m linking it here but will go through it step by step below. Let’s start: [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
Ever wonder how VI Client got its system summary data?
That’s easy – it hooks into the DMI/SMBIOS subsystem. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer. This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots (e.g. [...]
VirtualCenter CA Configuration – take 3
Updated: Thanks to Geert Baeke (in comments) for noticing my error – when creating a .pfx certificate file it is important to set the password as testpassword, otherwise sysprep encrypted passwords in your customization scripts will not work. The relevant sections has been modified. You learn something new every day In the comments of the [...]
ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 Patches out to deal with “August 12″ bug
http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/ The ESX 3.5 patch is 104MB. Cheers, Leo
A huge bug in VI3.5 Update 2
I just experienced the pain of a regressive licensing issue from VMware in VI3.5. I’m ripping the following description from VMware Communities along with some of my own data: The bug: Starting this morning, we could not power on nor VMotion any of our Virtual Machines. The VI Client threw the error: “A general system [...]
Sick as a dog
My apologies for not answering comments or requests for further info; I’m sick with a 38.8C temperature. Not thinking too clearly at the moment. Cheers, Leo
My bad – got caught by myself
Look at the below post where I say that bad work caused low performance. Seems I’m guilty myself. In both articles on deploying our iSCSI SAN (Article 1 and Article 2) I forgot to include instructions on the jumbo-frames support. If you run RedHat or RedHat derived GNU/Linux distributions, you will need to modify the [...]
VMware ESX iSCSI/Cisco/EMC AX4-5i jumbo frames
Update: It appears that I myself did not read the manual – as pointed out by stormlight in the comments, making me the monkey I’ve changed the title of the post and edited it a bit, because quite clearly, the people who did the implementation were not monkeys for not enabling iSCSI jumbo frames (though [...]
Watching your ESX server performance in real time with ESXTOP
Very few people understand the power of the VMware Console. Even fewer know the power of esxtop, a command-line real-time monitor for the vmkernel. You can get more information here. One of the most awesome things about esxtop is that it’s minimally intensive on resources and can be run interactively, as a batch mode or [...]