Archive for October, 2009

Posted on October 31st, 2009 by by Steve

VCP on vSphere!

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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Posted on October 21st, 2009 by by Steve

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 you get a message about nothing to flush. Then you need to run the command to [...]

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Posted on October 21st, 2009 by by Steve

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 then click “OK”. When browsing for the file, it is looking for a source with [...]

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Posted on October 8th, 2009 by by Steve

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 consistency group on the CX. Once we renamed the consistency group with a shorter name, [...]

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