Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
To setup properly the portgroups in VMware vSwitching environment, we had to create two portgroups per vSwitch as depicted below:
Reason for this configuration is that "operative portgroups" where servers and machines are connected should not be in Promiscuous mode to avoid sniffing other machines' traffic, while ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
OpenFiler is a great system to implement NAS (Network Attached Storage) in a network using general purpose hardware.
On the 'Net you can find great tutorial about how to setup with VMWare ESX servers, but it contains one important mistake:
When you define the ACL the netmask for every host is /32 ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Running vmware-config-tools.pl script on a guest CentOS 5.1 virtual machine in a VMWare Server 1.0.5 environment will not find the proper kernel modules, so it will prompt you to compile the modules.
To do this you need a compiling environment (namely gcc) and the C kernel headers installed.
If your machine is ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Regardless of VMWare Version you're using, you should have the command line tool
vmware-vdiskmanager
This useful command line tool can be used for many operations (vmware-vdiskmanager --help) including expanding a Virtual Disk without losing data contained.
The syntax for expanding is:
vmware-vdiskmanager -x 36Gb virtual_disk_name.vmdk
If you have partitions within the disk, remember that the ...
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