Comments for Virtualization Tips

Comment on How to clear alarms in vSphere vCenter 4 by ThomasC

ThomasC — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:40:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I hadn’t thought of it.

Comment on How to configure Fibre Channel uplink ports on Cisco UCS 6248 fabric interconnects by Brian

Brian — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:33:00 +0000

great article Brian , I am currently connecting a cisco fiber interconnect to a EMC CLarion via a MDS switch and using FC not FCOE ,

it looks as if I would confiugure the uplink ports as you say , I am very thankfull for this article!!! this saved me hours

Comment on How to move a VM without vCenter or Storage VMotion by lala

lala — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:29:00 +0000

Can I move with this metod itself the (virtual) vcenter server?

Comment on VMware vSphere and security scan false positives on OpenSSH vulnerabilities by Guest

Guest — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:25:00 +0000

Thnx

Comment on First look at new VMware View Client with PCoIP for Linux by Russel Wilkinson

Russel Wilkinson — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:39:00 +0000

@brian – Just as an FYI, since you scratched out the URL of your Security server in Image2 you might want to do the same in images 3, 4, & 5. Other than that, nice article on the connection process.

Comment on Beginners guide on how to setup HP MSA 2312sa Storage array by Michael

Michael — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:36:00 +0000

Excellent article, do you have any advice for multipathing on with ESX, should we configure the paths to use round robin as you do with the FC and iSCSI controllers?

Comment on VKernel announces Chargeback 2.0 for vSphere and Hyper-V shops by Zak Lyles

Zak Lyles — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:53:00 +0000

The title reads accounces, pretty sure you meant announces.

Comment on Issues with Controller replacement and Firmware upgrade on HP MSA 2312fc by Drhoo

Drhoo — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:31:00 +0000

Nice and helpful post.

Comment on How to move a VM without vCenter or Storage VMotion by Eino Mäkitalo

Eino Mäkitalo — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:56:00 +0000

I understand the need of vmkfstools command when cloning. When using mv inside same file system it should be perfectly safe, because it affects only directory data structures not data location of file.

I do my moves inside esx using vmkfstools -i (clone) and then delete vmkfstools -U

Comment on Walk through of new vSphere 5 web client interface by dZIMINE

dZIMINE — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:47:00 +0000

On Ubuntu, you’ll need to have 32bit Firefox with Flash plugin on it (Adobe doesn’t provide a 64bit Flash on Linux)