For Red Hat or clones, or ESX/ESXi, use “grub-md5-crypt”: Copy and paste to “rootpw –iscrypted” as appropriate.
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NetApp requires setting a timeout value of 190 seconds for all VMware data stores on their filers to handle “long fabric or storage-side I/O interruptions”; this is done as follows on FreeBSD: This can be set permanently in /etc/sysctl.conf: Elsewhere, I have seen a recommendation for FreeBSD on ESX that kern.cam.da.retry_count be set to 120.
Remove the VM from the inventory of virtual machines. In the host OS for Server, and in the , edit the ‘.vmx’ file for the FreeBSD host, adding the following line:: ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000″ Then, in the FreeBSD guest, change all references to le0 to em0 (such as in ‘/etc/rc.conf’ and ‘/etc/rc.conf.local’). Do the same [...]
Bookmarks for April 25, 2009
28-Apr-09Links for April 25, 2009: Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery Solutions for PostgreSQL Database on NetApp Storage Systems – "This document describes the operation of PostgreSQL on NetApp® storage systems. This report serves as a guide to get a PostgreSQL database up and running on NetApp. This guide assumes a basic knowledge of both NetApp [...]
By far, the VMware KB article I’ve gotten the most mileage out of is 1006427, Timekeeping best practices for Linux – effective workarounds for one of the roughest edges remaining in virtualizing Linux under VMware. (Link here is pretty much solely for my ease of later retrieval.)
Bookmarks for February 14, 2009
15-Feb-09Links for February 14, 2009: Introduction to Solaris CIFS VSCAN (Cardiff presentation) – everyone has a shangri-la to find – Blog post linking to slides, references and notes for a presentation given about Solaris’ CIFS and VSCAN. Gabes Virtual World Blog Archive Deploying ESX3.5 using EDA v0.85 inside VMware Workstation 6.5 – Overview of installing [...]
Bookmarks for February 5, 2009
06-Feb-09Links for February 5, 2009: Eavesdrop your VI-Client traffic – NTPRO.NL – Mentions a new verbose logging option which enables you to intercept the soap traffic between you VI-Client and the vCenter server. VMware KnowledgeBase Article – ESX Server host or virtual machines have intermittent or no network connectivity – "This article provides a series [...]