GodzukiFirst of all let me start this off by saying that there is a lot of information out there on how to setup a dedicated storage interface on XenServer. However, I was unable to find anything specifically related to bonding two unmanaged interfaces and use them for as a dedicated uplink, which is seems rather silly to me as why would you not want to have a highly redundant network connection to your NFS storage. I digress.
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How to Use Hpacucli in ESXi
Wow just stumbled into this one today as I was dreading having to reboot my ESXi 4.1 boxes just to see a few new local disks. Apparently you can install hpacucli in ESXi very easily, and whats even better is that you can install it directly on a datastore and use the install on any … Continue reading How to Use Hpacucli in ESXi
Patching ESXi 4.1 via the Linux RCLI
Great Balls of Frustration... could the documentation be anymore confusing and convoluted regarding the process of patching an ESX server via the Linux remote cli.
No, I am not running windows, and no I am not on the local ESX console, and no I am not running the Vmware Management Appliance, and most of all, no I do not want outdated instructions from 2008. I just want to download some patches to my local linux destop and patch my ESX servers. Specifically I want to install the latest and greatest Qlogic drivers to troubleshoot a SAN connectivity issue that I will probably blog about at a later date.
Anyway here is how I did what I needed to do without resorting to using a windows box.