Tag: VMware
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How to copy custom attributes when migrating vmware vcenter to new database
I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues. The current vcenter has a few custom attributes and notes that would not be transferred as part of the move. So I wanted to use powercli to read the attributes out…
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Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD Part 2
This blog is a follow on from a blog post I wrote ages ago and have eventually got round to finishing it off
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ESX Trunk VLAN config for Storage
I was struggeling with an install of ESXi on a cisco 6509 switch where the management and VM LAN connectivity worked just fine but for some reason the SAN NFS VLAN just did not want to communicate with the Nexenta on that VLAn. After some searching and trial and error I was able to utilise…
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Connecting ESXi 4.1 to extreme x650 10G switches
I am busy working on a contract with a comonay that is implementing a 10G network for their ESX cluster. We have been using extreme X650 10G copper switches for the core. Migrating the current servers to the 10G environment was relatively easy and went with minimal issues. Over the last 2 weeks I have…
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Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD
Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD Part1 To create this cluster you will need 2 ubuntu node servers installed as follows. I am creating this cluster inside of vMware so I created 2 VM’s with: 1GB RAM 1 10GB hdd for the root (/) partition. 1 20GB hdd for the database…
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Standing up and being counted.
I have for some time now been wondering how many people actually use Bongo. The reason for this is that we have had images available for a while and I am still non the wiser as to how many people actually use them. I faithfully spend hours and hours building packages and getting them out…
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vMware workstation 6.5.3 on openSUSE 11.2
I have just upgraded to 11.2 from ubuntu 9.10 on my IBM / Lenovo T61 laptop. ( I will post a better blog about that later) What I wanted to mention here is that the current vMware workstation 6.5.3 does not want to run on my system. I have found this post http://k—–k.blogspot.com/2009/09/install-vmware-workstation-653-on.html Which has…
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Bongo Images and the 0.5 release
Bongo Images and the 0.5 release I have been working on the images for the 0.5 release of Bongo and I have now completed them. They can be found here http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/bongo/latestRelease There is a change however in how we will be implementing the images from now on. I have decided that to make it easier…
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Bongo Images for 0.4.0 have been fixed
I have been able to rework the Bongo images to make them work. I would appreciate any testing that could be done as I do not have all the vm technologies to test. So I hope you have fun . Here is a link to the downloads
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Bongo Images for 0.4.0 Broken
Due to a server error where the images get built an error has crept in that make the images useless. This error has been prevalent for some time and so it has caused the images to break. I have therefore pulled the images and will try to fix the problem as soon as I can.…