I’ve found a few situations in which snapshots get stuck, like glue, to a running VM, and despite your best effort to delete them, they wont go away. Like in-laws, they stick around, a bit longer than is pleasant.
If a snapshot has not been removed cleanly on the first try, you may want to create [...]
Tom Howarth from PlanetVM turned me on to a great series of posts by Ed Haletky on how to manage different combinations of NIC’s in VMware ESX:
Blue Gears – 2 Physical NICs with VMware ESX
Blue Gears – 3 Physical NICs with VMware ESX
Blue Gears – 4 Physical NICs with VMware ESX
Blue Gears – 5 Physical [...]
Well now. We’ve come a long way since parts 1 & 2 haven’t we? That is all well and good considering, and makes for some light background reading. However, the game changes with ESXi, as there is no “Supported” Service Console on it’s platform.
In reality, the vmkernel runs a busybox executable. (Busybox is a linux [...]
Now that we’ve discussed what the service console is and what it does for you. We’ll talk about making it redundant, why Service Console Redundancy is important, and some ways of going about that. Another “Pretty Big Task” but one worth sticking around for (at least for the cookies at the end).
The Department of Redundancy [...]
Found a great resource explaining quite a few of the esxcfg-* commands, what they are and their use. They’re copied here for future reference.
NOTE: These will work from the rcli, SSH to the service console, or via VIMA. I’ve not tested these on ESXi (as the Service Console is ‘unsupported’)
To get a feel for what [...]
So I wanted to talk on best practices for your Service Console, what it’s for, and why and how to make it redundant. As that’s a lot of information, we’ll break it out in some parts.
This first part we’ll talk about what the service console is, and what it does.
So what is the ‘Service Console’? [...]
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