Just a quick note that this week I upgraded from VCP on VI3 to VCP on vSphere. This test was quite challenging, but Ive been working with vSphere since it was in beta and had a lot of practical knowledge [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Changing Service Console IP via command line
Had to look up how to change the Service Console IP via command line today… here is a good article: “Once in the service console runt the command “esxcfg-vswif -d vswif0″. This command deletes the existing vswif0. Don’t worry if [...]
Issue uninstalling old version of VMware Tools
Upgrading an old XP VM to vSphere today, I had an issue when trying to upgrade the VMware Tools. The tools installer tries to remove an old version of VMware Tools.msi, and asks to insert the “VMware Tools” disk and [...]
SRM/EMC Clariion Consistency Group name – Length Limitation
I recently had an issue during SRM testing where the “Test Recovery” passed, but when we ran the actual recovery, it failed. Looking through the logs it looked like SRM or the SRA did not see the full name of the [...]