In my lab, I am in the process of moving off of Vmware/ESXi and onto RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization). So far the learning curve has not been that bad.... Installing and configuring RHEV-M was just as simple as installing a few packages on top of RHEL 6. I had an unused desktop that was more than up for the task. For RHEV-H... Well I had just finished building out a server for it. Once my initial hardware was up and running it was time to start moving virtual machines out of Vsphere.
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Vmware VCenter Virtual Appliance – Death to Windows.. I think.
6a00d8341c77ee53ef01630028e663970dI am, and have always been, a Linux/Unix Administrator, until VMware forced me to learn a bit of Windows.
This, above all, has been the very WORST part about Vmware. Just to run Virtual Center, I had to BUY Windows, I had to Install Windows, and I had to try to learn Windows. Oh, and then I had to slap some sort of virus protection on it, and figure out how to patch it. And then worst of all try to authenciate to it, as I am not administering Active Directory. No, I use Openldap, as any Linux/Unix admin would.
Removing a Virtual Disk from CentOS/RHEL via vSphere Client
When you right click on a VM via the vSphere client and click edit setting you will see your hard disk enumerated as follows
ESX Post Install – Enable NTP and SNMP
This post is the first in what I suspect will be a semi-long list of post-install hints and tips as I go through and start rebuilding my cluster as Vsphere 4. Hopefully I will learn a lot along the way... like for example the fact the ntp and snmp traffic is not allowed by default … Continue reading ESX Post Install – Enable NTP and SNMP