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Console-Setup, it’s menu driven!
Troubleshooting Service Console issues has always been a little bit annoying (well, at least to me 🙂 ). However, since ESX4 Update 2, there is a new command that will make […]
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Boot ESX 4 from SAN on IBM HS22 Blade Server.
Wow, it has been a while since my last blog! I’ve been working on a large virtualization project at one of our customers lately, which involved diskless IBM HS22 blade servers with two […]
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Unload unnecessary modules from your ESX host.
“Turn off what you do not need” is my motto 🙂 . So, if you are not using the VMFS-2 (which you probably aren’t using since ESX 3.x) and/or NFSClient […]
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Monitor VMkernel activity with the tail command.
The tail command displays last 10 lines of a file and with the –f (follow) parameter you can see the data appended to it. So, if you want to see […]
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Disable “No Internet Access” notification on Windows Server 2008 (R2).
The “No Internet Access” notification on the network connection icon usually appears when you’re not connected to the Internet or you probably behind a proxy server. However, when you setting […]
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Dell PowerConnect 6224 – Lessons Learned.
A few days ago I had a chance to configure a Dell EqualLogic PS4000XV iSCSI SAN connected through two Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches during a virtualization project at one of […]
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Delete invalid entry from the boot configuration data store on Windows Server 2008 (R2).
Recently I came across the following issue on a HP DL380 G5 server with freshly installed Windows Server 2008 R2 (click on the picture for a larger image). I have […]
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Configure Jumbo Frames on Hardware iSCSI HBA in ESX 4.
Before you begin, check the names of the vmhba adapters on your ESX server. From the vSphere Client go to Configuration tab and click on Storage Adapters. Now, to set Jumbo Frame support […]