With great virtualisation comes great responsibility!

Greetings, faithful reader,
This one is as much a reminder for me as it is one to you!

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§255 · April 3, 2009 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


This one is getting filed under “Try it really soon!” However, randomly answering an email, I came across this document on http://www.vminfo.nl detailing the process for making a bootable USB key with ESX 3i installed.

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§243 · March 11, 2009 · Tutorials, VMWare · 2 comments · Tags: ,


Occassionally, when you try to shut down a virtual machine the progress bar will stop meaning that the process will never complete in the background. The following steps will allow you to force the shutdown of a running virtual machine.

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§182 · December 12, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


iSCSI, as a storage option, has less performance than fibre channel ie. it is limited to the speed of the HBAs or the network card being used, however it is far cheaper and I can leaverage my existing infrastructure to put in an iSCSI SAN. The problem becomes, in a TCP/IP network, how do I [...]

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§177 · December 11, 2008 · Cisco, Tutorials, VMWare · 1 comment · Tags: , ,


Following on in the series, here is the second subnet masking example.
You have been given the network range 192.168.128.0/24. Your task is to break it down into six networks. The questions you have to answer are, how many hosts on each network, and what are the network IDs and broadcast IDs for each of the [...]

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§170 · December 10, 2008 · Cisco, Tutorials · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


After the other week’s CCENT course, I made a promise to start emailing subnetting examples out. Rather than writing and re-writing the same thing time and time again, I figured I’d put them up here instead.
So, fixed length subnet masking example #1 is this:
You have been given the network range 192.168.128.0/22. Your first task is [...]

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§166 · December 8, 2008 · Cisco, Tutorials · 1 comment · Tags: , ,


Sometimes a file or set of files in a VMFS become locked and any attempts to edit them or delete will give a device or resource busy error, even though the virtual machine associated with the files is not running. If the virtual machine is running then you would need to stop the virtual [...]

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§149 · October 28, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: , , ,


VMware has added a new command in VI3 to help when a user has a VM that has become unresponsive. Below are the progressives steps to go through to get the VM cleanly powered off. Whatever you do, DO NOT kill the pid for the VM from the Service Console, unless you have [...]

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§145 · October 26, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


After performing a P2V always remove the hidden physical hardware from the OS. This is particularly important for network cards that have the original IP address(es) that you want to assisgn to the new VM.

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§111 · October 11, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: , , ,


Guys are hard at work with the labs at the moment here in sunny Hobart, and so I begin trawling the blogs (as is my want). I discovered this brilliant little gem from Mike DiPetrill’s blog.

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§103 · October 2, 2008 · Microsoft, Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: , , ,