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Assign a static MAC Address to a Virtual Machine on VMware infrastructure.
A few days ago I was P2V’ing some servers for a customer. The servers had application license bound to the MAC address of the NIC adapter so I had to […]
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Install Dell OpenManage on ESXi 4.1 using vSphere CLI or vMA.
Here is a quick step-by-step guide on how to install the Dell OpenManage software on an ESXi host using the VMware vSphere Command Line interface (vSphere CLI) or the VMware […]
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P2V quick reference guide.
I’ve been doing a lot of P2V’s for different customers lately and since most of the actions performed during the P2V procedure repeat themselves quite often, I’ve decided to create […]
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“Unable to retrieve health data from https” alert displayed in the vCenter Service Status.
I recently saw this error occur on a Windows Server 2008 R2 running VMware vCenter Server 4.1.0 (Build 258902) after changing the name of the server. Apparently, changes made to […]
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Configuring software iSCSI Round Robin MPIO on ESX 4.x.
This is just a quick post about configuring software iSCSI Round Robin MPIO (2:1 mapping) on an ESX 4.x server. Here is a quick overview of the procedure: Create VMkernel […]
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Boot ESX 4 from SAN on a failover LUN – Lessons learned.
Is it possible to boot an ESX 4 host from a LUN that has been “failed over” to another physical location? Yes, it is possible but there are some serious […]
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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 […]