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vSphere 6.5 Upload Fails
Let me start by saying this: I hate VCSA 6.5. I hate the fact that I have to use Flash (which EVERYONE is dropping support for) to manage my enterprise environment. Flash and Java… good riddance. I didn’t even realize I didn’t have Flash installed until I had to manage this stupid thing and needed…
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argh! nic team/etherchannel with management port group
A few weeks ago, I was banging my head on the table trying to get the management port group working on a nic team/etherchannel for a client. They use Netgear switches, so I was kinda feeling my way through the GUI to make it work. Everything looked right, but I still couldn’t get the stupid…
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Updating ESXi 4.1
I recently went through the exercise of upgrading my standalone VMware ESXi 4.1 server. The process is pretty easy. Grab the vSphere CLI from: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/ Grab the relevant patches. Make sure you select the correct version of ESX/ESXi. I facepalmed when I realized I was trying to update using the ESX (not ESXi) packages and…
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OpenVPN and VMware
Promiscuous mode needs to be enabled on the vSwitch if you are using bridge mode. Remember that before you facepalm.
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Adios Hyper-V R2, Part 3 (The End)
I’m going to call this a successful migration with a couple issues: 1) I didn’t/forgot to set the block size of the vmfs when I installed ESXi. The default is 1MB. This means my virtual disks are limited to 256GB. Not a big deal for now. I plan on putting a set of 2TB disks…
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Adios Hyper-V R2, Part 2
The migration of my Hyper-V R2 environment to ESXi 4.1 is at the halfway point right now. At this point, all the systems have been imported into VMware Workstation 7.1 that I have installed on my desktop. The process didn’t go as smooth as I had hoped. For starters, I couldn’t use the built-in importer…
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Adios Hyper-V R2, Part 1
So I’m in the mood to upgrade my virtual server. Right now it’s running some Phenom II Quadcore with 8GB of RAM. There are 2 320GB disks in a Raid 1 using the onboard nvdia controller. The disk configuration was a big deciding factor when I was trying to choose between Hyper-V R2 or ESXi…