Moving along with our series of esxcfg & VCDX related series of posts, we come to esxcfg-vswitch. The example we’ll work with here has us setting up a new virtual switch, adding an uplink NIC, adding a port group with VLAN 393, and changing the MTU. Ready? Here we go:
Add the vSwitch: [...]
As a plethora of my last posts suggest, I am spinning up study towards my VCDX. My first stop on that journey will be with the Enterprise Admin exam. Along the way I hope to share bits that I learn, review, and otherwise enjoy about the process. Today that is figuring out all manner of [...]
Like the last several posts, this one hails from the storage section of the Enterprise Admin Blueprint. The Enterprise Admin exam is one of the several requirements to becoming a VCDX. As I go down this path, I hope to share with you some of my exam prep in the hope that it will help [...]
Seems this is becoming part of a series. Like the last few posts, this one was also produced from objective 1.1 of the VCDX Blueprint, and is part of my exam prep.
Task:
Manage VMFS file systems using command line tools.
Solution:
[root@ProfessionalVMware root]# vmkfstools No valid command specified
OPTIONS FOR FILE SYSTEMS: [...]
Like the last post, this one also hails from objective 1.1 of the VCDX Blueprint, and is part of my exam prep.
Task:
Configure an NFS Datastore using command line tools.
Solution:
[root@ProfessionalVMware root]# esxcfg-nas esxcfg-nas <options> [<label>] -a|–add Add a new NASc filesystem to /vmfs volumes. [...]
While this actually requires no special settings, I figure it’s worth noting, if for nothing more than to state that in VMware Fusion 3, ESX 3.5 requires no additional settings to be operational. Basically it works as follows:
Download the ESX ISO (vmware.com/download/vi)
In VMware Fusion create a new virtual machine, choosing said ISO: [...]
The last time we touched upon LUN resigning, it was during an odd hour of the night. Looking back now, some interesting VMware KB articles have cropped up around this very topic.
First there is KB 9453805, which covers this process for VI3, seemingly from top to bottom, it also greatly expands on my post, [...]
Can’t be much more descriptive than that. Check the release notes here.
What’s New
Notes:
Not all combinations of VirtualCenter and ESX Server versions are supported and not all of these highlighted features are available unless you are using VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 4 with ESX Server 3.5 Update 4. See the ESX Server, VirtualCenter, and VMware Infrastructure Client [...]
This particular topic comes up from time to time in discussions. Yes it is OK to run Exchange on VMware, and Exchange 2007 on VMware is a supported configuration… for more info, follow the links below:
The Podcast – Wednesday, Jan 14, for another round of the VMware Communities Roundtable podcast
The Webinar – Jan 15: Exchange [...]
VMware release KB 1008130 yesterday, describing just this:
Symptoms include:
VMware ESX or ESXi host might get disconnected form VirtualCenter.
All paths to the LUNs are in standby state.
esxcfg-rescan might take a long time to complete or never completes (hung).
The KB goes on to say, that right now the only fix is a reboot:
This issue can occur on [...]
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