Posted by Brian on May 28, 2010 in Troubleshooting, VMware | 0 comments
I found a recent VMware KB article about FT and some common reasons that it might fail to start. The article goes on to explain some reasons why FT options might be greyed out, disabled or you cannot turn on Fault Tolerance. It also talks about requirements that must be met to enable FT. See the full article here.
VMware article that explains Fault Tolerance and what it can do. VMware KB
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Posted by Brian on May 28, 2010 in VMware, vSphere | 0 comments
In the early morning hours a pack of emails arrived to notify me of the latest round of patches for vSphere and related products. Most of the patches are related to the Service Console for ESX. A couple of the issues are shared in ESXi and are fixed with the patches.
ESX 4.0 Patches
VMSA-2010-0009 – ESX400-201005401-SG
Updates apps, cim, exsupdate, scripts, tools, vmkernel64, uwlibs, kernel, and openssl
VMSA-2010-0004.1 – ESX400-201002001
ESX Service Console updates for newt, nfs-utils, and glib2 packages.
ESXi 4.0 Patches
VMSA-2010-0009 – ESXi400-201005401-SG
The updated NTP daemon fixes a flaw in the way it handled certain malformed NTP packets.
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Posted by Brian on May 25, 2010 in VMware | 0 comments
Was approached by someone on the security team to find out what version of OpenSSH was on some hosts that had been patched recently. Now that is something that you don’t get asked every day. So if you need to find this out you can use a simple command that I listed below.
# ssh -v
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Posted by Brian on May 24, 2010 in Troubleshooting, VMware | 2 comments
There might be a few reasons that you would need to do this. But if you need to locate the Serial Number of server or Service Tag of your Dell server you can do this from the service console command line. In the past I have needed this to schedule service and also to confirm the identity of a server for the Vendor that was on site. In case you do not have a database to reference or maybe someone mistyped the digits you can always fall back to this method.
Type the following command from the command line on the service console and you will get some Vendor details and serial number information.
[root@host name]# /usr/sbin/dmidecode |grep -A4 “System Information”
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Posted by Brian on May 24, 2010 in Certification, VMware | 0 comments
Earlier today VMware announced details about the VCAP certifications. These are the two new intermediate certifications that are also used as steps towards earning the VCDX.
Upon accomplishing VMware Certified Professional on VMware vSphere 4 (VCP4) you are eligible to pursue our intermediate level certification: VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP). Available in Datacenter Administration (DCA) and/or Datacenter Design (DCD), this program is appropriate for VCP4s that are ready to further enhance their skills with the virtual infrastructure and add new, industry-recognized credentials to their list of accomplishments. Find the full details from VMware here.
VCAP4 – Datacenter Administration – Gain industry recognition for your technical leadership in the planning and administration of vSphere technologies. You will be able to sit for the exam starting July 12.
VCAP4 – Datacenter Design – This design focused exam is expected to be available sometime in August.
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