I recently reinstalled my VMware servers using USB sticks. After the first reboot I noticed an yellow warning. When highlighting the different servers I noticed the “System logs are stored on non-persistent storage” warning. This is how you can fix that : Select a persistent (SAN?) storage that you canRead More →
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This is how you easily can kill an running VM : Login to your VMware server Start esxtop Press c to show CPU resource screen Press Shift-V to show only virtual machines Press f to add a column (Leader World ID) Identify the machine you wish to kill (LWID) PressRead More →
The following describes how to connect your Synology NAS to your ESXi host using NFS : First make sure NFS is enabled : NFS has to be enabled ofcourse Then create an shared folder (or use an existing one) Add NFS rights, specify the host (ESXi server)Read More →
Many times people asked me how to extend a disk or I see them running Gpart or CLI tools while it’s not necessary. For those people I decided to write this blogpost. Step 1 : Extend your disk in VMware settings Go to you vCenter server and extend the disk.Read More →
Today a customer wanted SSH by default on for specific reasons and didn’t like the yellow warning on their ESXi servers. This is how you disable this : First enable SSH : Go to Security Profile –> SSH –> options and enable it. Notice that now you have a yellowRead More →
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After installing CentOs you might notice that the eth0 network card interface isn’t working in some cases. Here is how to fix this : You need to edit (nano) two files : /etc/sysconfig/network (check networking=0) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (set IP address and boot=on) After this you can install VMware tools also. (CheckRead More →
This is how you install VMware Tools on CentOs : mkdir /media/cdrom mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom cd /tmp tar –xf /media/cdrom/VM* cd vm* ./vmware-install.pl Now reboot your system rm -r /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib Technorati Tags: Linux,VMwareRead More →
While upgrading to the latest version everything seemed to be working fine, but when I started Veeam B&R for the first time it wanted to upgrade some components and while upgrading one component it stalled with the error “no access”. This is how I fixed this problem. Go to yourRead More →