Some times, for some reason (like for rearrangement in my case) system administrator wants to change the host location and move one (or more) host from one cluster to the other, to do so, the host should be remove from first cluster and join to the other. Well, it’s a very easy process but there […]
Tag: ESXi
Unregistering & Registering VMs
This post is about the way to unregister and register VMs from/to ESXi hosts using commands (Local TSM, SSH) not GUI (vSphere Client). May be you ask, why should I do such a thing? well, assume you have two hosts in cluster without EVC enabled for it, in order to enable EVC for cluster, all […]
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DCAS-#004 (vCLI and Session Files)
Yesterday, as part of my studying process, I worked with VMA and a little with vCLI. During working with VMA, I tried and worked with “vilogger” which acting as syslog server for centralizing the logs from different hosts, as VMware ESXi would be the only option from next edition, working with VMA and knowing how […]
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DCAS-#003 (Scripted Installation of ESXi 4.1)
Today, while I was working on “uda2cm” I found some notes which I think it’s good to share them here. There is a lot of good post and notes on the net about scripted installation of VMware ESXi and I’m going to link some of them over here (those I’ve used myself): Virtual RealITy (by: […]
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UDA 2.x Config Maker
Yesterday, during my works with UDA 2.0 for exercising the “Script Installation” of VMware ESX/ESXi I thought it may be good if there’s a way for creating Templates and Subtemplates for this great utility, faster and more easier, so I start writing a page (web app) which going to generate Subtemplates and Templates for installing […]
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DCAS-#002 (Storage)
Base on my previous post, this would be another post in my VCAP-DCA Preparation series (DCAS). It’s about storage and how to add new storage (iSCSI) to the hosts. Condition: There is two ESXi 4.1 hosts with one NIC, one vSwitch (vSwitch0) and two VMKernel port (vmk0 & vmk1) and both have their local datastores […]
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DCAS-#001 (Lab Preparation … Network)
Again, I have new goal and I want to rearrange my home lab to meet the requirements for it. This time my goal is “VCAP4-DCA” certification and I have to use different kind of tools for preparation. As one of my PC stop working (one of my two Physical host – whitebox), I have to […]
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Project #01 (P.03)
In my current project, customer got Windows server 2003 x86 with database on MS SQL server 2000 which is using by one application and one web server. The web server it self running on windows server 2003 as well and the main portal is written by ASP .net I talked with customer and the application/portal […]
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NFS on Windows Server 2008 R2
As usual I have reconfigured my home lab and again I start with configuring my Starwind iSCSI Target with no problem at all, It’s easy, fast and reliable at least in my home lab I get a good answer from it. I’m using this software to provide iSCSI targets to my ESXi hosts and placing […]
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VMware vSphere PowerCLI
Today is the first day I’m starting using VMware vSphere PowerCLI and I’ll post any script I’m writing during my study, I hope they become useful (some day). Last night we have power outage and because I’m not using UPS at home for my lab, both of my systems powered off. Today I have powered […]
