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Changing VMWare ESX 3 IP and Hostname
I have recently moved a VMWare ESX 3 cluster to our tier 2 data center. The old cluster (IBM x3655 servers) were replaced by new IBM 3850 M2 servers quad – quad core 2.9ghz Xeons with 64 gigs of RAM....
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VMware: ESX Network Troubleshooting With Cisco
The first VM server that I was re-IPing was not coming up. Each server has 6 network ports separated by ISCSI and regular LAN traffic. When I looked at the virtual switch configuration using...
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VMware ESXi
After running full fledged VMware ESX v2 and 3 clusters, I have moved on to testing ESX3i. Even though it is free and does not provide HA(High Availability) or DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler), it...
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VMWare / Hardware: IBM 3850 M2 Statistics
Below are observed results from when I was doing a NIC card install on 3 IBM 3850 M2 servers. Server Specifications: 16 CPU Cores x 2.931 GHz 64 GB RAM Boot to BIOS = ~5.19 minutes Boot to ESX = ~8...
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VMware: OS Specific Packages(vmtools)
Found out via twitter early this AM (@jtroyer) that VMware is now releasing OS specific packages. This means that you can now get VMware tools natively packaged for the following: * Red Hat Enterprise...
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