Disable or Enable the VMware vSphere Web Access Service. Why would you want to disable Web Access service? Well, it’s another entry point to your vCenter and you might want to secure that as much as possible, right? Disable the vSphere Web Access service on vCenter Server On the vCenter Server machine, select Start > […]
VMware ESX – Configuration of Service console via CLI
Configure Service Console via CLI. To manage VMware ESX server you must have an access via a special network interface called Service Console. SC. This network interface is called “vswif”. You can have several SC configured on your ESX server (It’s recommended by VMware to have at least two SC, in case there is a […]
Basic VMware ESX CLI networking commands
Some basic CLI commands for configuring the network, vSwitches and portgroups from command line.. This is not an exhausted list of commands, just few of them. While working through putty session you need to know them. At first the root access to your esx host is disabled by default. You can (thus it’s not really […]
How to change the default location of updates in vCenter
Change the default path for updates and patches. For the updates: It can be useful many times when after you install vCenter your realize after some time, that you don’t have much space left on your C drive. And you might need to change the path to D, where your drive has plenty of space […]
End of VCB – VMware Consolidated Backup
In the upcoming release of vSphere there will be no more VCB. As some bloggers already announced, VCB backup will be phased out and replaced by VDR. At the moment when you download vSphere, you still have a choice between VCB and VDR. So in vSphere 4.1 (if this is the future release number… 8-)), […]
vSphere Pro Training Vol. 1 Review
My Review of vSphere Pro Training videos from TrainSignal. Last week I received the new additional training for VMware vSphere 4 made by 3 vEperts well known by the VMware Virtualization communities. Those guys are (in no particular order): David Davis, Hal Rottenberg and Rick Scherer. You can find some more details about those guys […]
Starwind iSCSI HA Connection to ESX Server
Part 3 – ESX server configuration In my last article I was explaining how and why setup Starwind High Availability feature to protect you virtual infrastructure data from materiel failure. The article series would not have sense if I would not explain how to connect the iSCSI Target created to my VMware vSphere 4 installation. […]
Surebackup – what? New upcoming product from VEEAM
This is a special report post. Yes, the tweets and blog posts had been just raining the last couple of hours and days. I’m putting my thoughts and wishes too… 😎 . There will be a very new update announced from VEEAM. Or maybe a totally new product? At the moment nobody knows. The only […]
Troubleshooting the installation of VMware tools
Windows installer error prevents to install VMware Tools. The other day I was just struggling to install vMware Tools in XP pro VM. The VM was imported into my vCenter via Third party Acronis Image, but I don’t think that it was an Acronis problem in any way since I’ve done some P2V through Acronis […]
See a list of Storage Array Type Plugins on ESX Server
Configuring ALUA – Asymetric Logical Unit Access I was configufing a mutlipath for a Eternus DX 60 storage SAN and there is a section there on configuring ALUA. (Asymetric Logical Unit Access). Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) is a standard-based method for discovering and managing multiple paths to a SCSI LUN. It is described in […]
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