Something really nasty happened to me when I was working on storage vmotioning a ton of VMs onto new datastores. Basically I was not paying attention and tried to manually remove a Virtual Machine from the datastore using the datastore browser. This basically wiped out the .vmx and.vmdk files, leaving only the flat.vmdk file which … Continue reading Raising A Virtual Machine From the Dead, or How I Screwed Up a VM and Resurected It
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ESXi 4.1 – Three Ways to Kill a Virtual Machine from the Command Line.
Three Ways to Kill a Virtual Machine from the Command Line.
Other HA Configuration Error in ESXi and ESX cluster
Ran into the error below yesterday after rebuilding an ESX 4.0 host as ESXi 4.1 and attempting to enable HA after the newly rebuild ESXi host was added back to the cluster. Cannot complete the configuration of the HA agent on the host. Other HA configuration error. Since error message was dissapointingly unspecific, I called VMware Support and asked for their guidance. According to my tech, they are actually getting a lot of calls on this error, as may who are doing in place upgrades to esxi from esx are running into this.
Quick and Dirty ESXi 4.1 Patching with esxupdate
Most if not all patching for ESX is usually done via Vmware Update Manager, however I downloaded a couple of zip files directly from HP to install when I rebuild my ESX 4.0 cluster as ESX 4.1. First step is to get your zip files on the ESX host (using scp in my case) and … Continue reading Quick and Dirty ESXi 4.1 Patching with esxupdate
Fat Virtual Machines Suck
Oversized virtual machines suck and here is why. http://frankdenneman.nl/2010/12/impact-of-oversized-virtual-machines-part-1/ As a side note, try doing a google image search for fat, its rather awesome.
VCP Practice Test Questions Part 1
I figured that after a good solid two plus years of administering as well as designing, configuring and deploying Vmware ESX that i should get of my rear and finally work on getting my VCP. A good number for Vmware positions require it nowadays as its a pretty valuable certification, one of the few left … Continue reading VCP Practice Test Questions Part 1
Enable Outbound SSH in ESX 4.x
Apparently SSH outbound connections are not allowed in ESX by default, or are at least not allowed anymore by default. I say this as I have never had to allow ssh outbound before. Anyway, I ran into this today when attempting to scp a file off of one of my esx servers. To allow check … Continue reading Enable Outbound SSH in ESX 4.x