NIC teaming with VMware vSphere 4 With VMware vSphere 4 you have the possibility to team your NICs and benefit redundancy and share the network load of traffic between physical and virtual networks among the members of the network. The configuration is easy via GUI even if its possible use CLI (command line interface) for […]
ESXi 4 does not support serial and parallel ports
There is no support for serial and parallel ports on ESXi 4 host. I was trying to connect a modem device which communicates via serial port on one of ESXi hosts at customer sites the other day. But every time when I wanted to add a serial port to my VM, which was an Windows […]
VMware VMA – how to change default english keyboard
When you need to change the default keyboard language. VMware vMA is a Redhat entreprise Linux 5 prepackaged virtual appliance which helps you manage ESXi 4 installations. ESXi 4 is the hypervizor without the classic Service Console. VMware is trying to push more and more to this direction since the Sevice console is a potential […]
Static MAC address set in VMware
How to maintain a the same MAC address all the time within your vSphere 4 installation. In VMware vSphere 4 environement, when you move your VM to another host or the VM has different path on the same host, the MAC adress of the VM is changed. If you want to guarantee that the same […]
VMware Patch process step by step video
VMware KB video showing patching of ESX Host. vSphere 4 Update Manager in action. If you never used VMware vSphere 4 update manager before, this video shows you how to get started and how to successfully apply a necessary security patches to your ESX host. The GUI interface seems to be difficult to understand, but […]
Rename VMDKs to avoid Backup conflicts
What if you end up with the same vmdk file name on different datastores? A simple case scenario that can happens: A single VM has several hard disk attached to it. The hard disk VMDK files are located on different datastores. When creating a new hard disk which location is on different datastore to a […]
Spring discounts with promo codes at VMware
Promo codes for Workstation 7 and Fusion 3, including Upgrades… After a recent announce of huge discount for vSphere Essentials, where you’re able get $500 off the price (50% OFF), today there are some more discount with promo codes announced. You can get 25% off the regular price for Workstation 7 and for Fusion 3. […]
What is vSphere Mangement Assistant (VMA)?
What is vSphere Mangement Assistant (VMA)? It’s basically a virtual machine which runs on a Linux distribution. This VM can be used as a VM where you’ll run scripts and agents to manage ESXi hosts and vCenter server systems. One of the agents which are ofter run within VMA are agents for UPS systems. VMA has […]
Troubleshooting Fault Tolerance in vSphere
VMware Fault Tolerance questions. Great doc released through VMware KB I just discovered about explaining all about Fault Tolerance and also how to troubleshoot the error messages when you try to activate this feature. In this KB you’ll find how to troubleshoot, when to activate, when the option is available and when it’s grayed out… […]
Adding second service console via CLI
Service Console commands. In the last series I explained how to change the IP address of the Service console (SC), which is an interface called vswif . You can see all the configured vswif interfaces with this command: esxcfg-vswif -l Normaly the first SC is vswif0. Before adding second SC we will first create a […]
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