Archive for October, 2009
Posted on October 31st, 2009 by by Steve
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 using the product.
There are mannnnnny other virtualization blogs posting great links to study material. Between [...]
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Tags: note, practical knowledge, test, vcp, vi3, virtualization, VMware, vSphere, week
Posted on October 21st, 2009 by by Steve
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 you get a message about nothing to flush. Then you need to run the command to [...]
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Tags: address, arrow keys, broadcast address, command, Console, default gateway, Don, ip address subnet mask, p service, service, vswif
Posted on October 21st, 2009 by by Steve
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 then click “OK”. When browsing for the file, it is looking for a source with [...]
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Tags: installer, microsoft installer, old version, software microsoft, Tools, Upgrading, user software, VMware, vmware tools, vSphere
Posted on October 8th, 2009 by by Steve
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 consistency group on the CX. Once we renamed the consistency group with a shorter name, [...]
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Tags: cpp, error details, Failover, group, issue, LUN, mirror group, PromoteConsistancyGroups, SRM, VMware