2014
June
- June 26, 2014 » Create a Test Wordpress Instance using Puppet and Vagrant
- June 24, 2014 » Multi VM Vagrant Setup
- June 23, 2014 » Compile OpenVAS 7 on CentOS 6
- June 22, 2014 » OpenSUSE Base Box for Vagrant From SUSE Studio
- June 21, 2014 » Upload Vagrant Box to the Vagrant Cloud
- June 18, 2014 » Create a Base OpenSUSE Image for Vagrant
- June 15, 2014 » Simple Vagrant Setup
- June 14, 2014 » Arch Linux Systemd on ARM Architecture Issue
- June 8, 2014 » Monitor ESXi S.M.A.R.T Attributes with Zabbix over SSH
- June 7, 2014 » ESXi Patch for HeartBleed
May
April
March
February
January
2013
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
- April 21, 2013 » Setup Your Own Certificate Authority (CA) on Linux and Use it in a Windows Environment
- April 20, 2013 » Installing and Configuring OmniOS
- April 18, 2013 » Snapshots Take a Long Time When “Keep Memory” is Enabled
- April 18, 2013 » Load Balancing IIS Sites with NLB
- April 16, 2013 » Mini ESXi Lab Hosts
- April 16, 2013 » Lowering the Memory Usage on the vCenter Appliance
- April 15, 2013 » Use FWBuilder to Deploy an IPtables Firewall to a DD-WRT Router
- April 15, 2013 » Installing and Configuring Fail2Ban on OmniOS
- April 12, 2013 » Setting up a FreeBSD 9 WordPress Server on 128MB of RAM
- April 12, 2013 » Deploy an Amazon EC2 instance in the Free Usage Tier
- April 11, 2013 » Migrating a VM from VMware Workstation to Oracle VirtualBox
- April 8, 2013 » Extending the System Drive on Windows 2008 Running Under KVM
- April 8, 2013 » Deploying a Test Windows Environment in a KVM Infrastucture
- April 8, 2013 » AWS VPN Cisco ASA and SLA Monitor
- April 8, 2013 » Astaro Security Gateway Routing
- April 7, 2013 » How to Update the AWS CLI Tools (Linux)
March
- March 21, 2013 » Creating an IPS Repository for OminiOS
- March 15, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 8 Network Installs
- March 14, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 7 User Administration
- March 13, 2013 » Monitor Different Systems with Zabbix
- March 12, 2013 » Update ChrUbuntu 12.04 to 13.04 on the Samsung Chromebook
- March 11, 2013 » Monitor Different Systems with Zenoss
- March 11, 2013 » Install ChrUbuntu 12.04 on Samsung Chromebook
- March 7, 2013 » Upgrading vShield Manager from 5.0 to 5.1.2a
- March 7, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 6 Package Management
- March 7, 2013 » Monitor Different Systems with Munin
- March 4, 2013 » X Server Doesn't Start After Upgrading to Fedora 18 with Nvidia Driver
February
January
- January 31, 2013 » Organizing Your Music Library Using Acoustic Fingerprinting
- January 25, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 5 Networking
- January 25, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 4 File Systems and Such
- January 22, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 3 Disks and Partitioning
- January 22, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 2 System Initialization
- January 14, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 1 - Installation
- January 14, 2013 » Plot Esxtop Data With gnuplot
- January 14, 2013 » HTTP Based Data Transfers from Windows 8 VM to Linux Physical Machine are Corrupted
- January 14, 2013 » ESXi Hosts Show Up as a VEM Module with All Zeros for UUIDs on the Nexus 1000v
- January 14, 2013 » Connecting to a VM using "Serial Port Over the Network" With a Moxa Device Server
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 9.2 – Install ESXi Hosts Using Auto Deploy
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 9.1 – Install ESXi hosts with custom settings
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 8.2 – Administer vSphere Using the vSphere Management Assistant
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 8.1 – Execute VMware Cmdlets and Customize Scripts Using PowerCLI
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 7.2 – Configure and Maintain the ESXi Firewall
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 7.1 – Secure ESXi Hosts
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.5 – Troubleshoot vCenter Server and ESXi Host Management
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.4 – Troubleshoot Storage Performance and Connectivity
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.3 – Troubleshoot Network Performance and Connectivity
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.2 – Troubleshoot CPU and Memory Performance
- January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.1 – Configure, Manage, and Analyze vSphere Log Files
2012
December
November
- November 30, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 5.1 – Implement and Maintain Host Profiles
- November 30, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 4.2 – Deploy and Test VMware FT
- November 30, 2012 » Presenting a LUN over Fibre Channel from a NetApp FAS 3240 Array to an ESXi 5.0 Host Running on a Cisco UCS B200 Blade
- November 29, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 4.1 – Implement and Maintain Complex VMware HA Solutions
- November 29, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 3.4 – Utilize Advanced vSphere Performance Monitoring Tools
- November 29, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 3.3 – Implement and Maintain Complex DRS Solutions
- November 29, 2012 » Recover Files from an SD Card Using Linux Utilities
- November 29, 2012 » IBM HS22 Blades Running ESXi 5.0 Experience Random Hangs
- November 23, 2012 » VMs are Slow to Boot from an HP MSA 2000 Array
- November 23, 2012 » Receiving " Failed write command to write-quiesced partition" Messages When Utilizing Qlogic QMI8142 CNA
- November 23, 2012 » Lost NFS Connectivity from ESX(i) Host when NAS is Another Subnet
- November 23, 2012 » Installing be2iscsi Driver Version 4.1.334.3 on HP BL495c G6 with NC553m CNAs Causes ESXi Host to PSOD
- November 23, 2012 » ESX(i) Host with Emulex NC553i CNA Disconnects from Strorage
- November 23, 2012 » Experiencing PSODs on HP 465C G7 Blades with NC551i NICs
- November 5, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 3.2 – Optimize Virtual Machine Resources
- November 5, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 3.1 – Tune and Optimize vSphere Performance
- November 5, 2012 » CloudFront with ELB and Apache VirtualHosts
- November 1, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 2.4 – Administer vNetwork Distributed Switch Settings
October
- October 27, 2012 » Can't Set X520 10GbE Intel NIC to Auto Negotiate on ESX(i)
- October 22, 2012 » Setup Fedora 17 with nVidia GeForce 6200 Video Card to Connect to a TV and Function as an XBMC Media Center
- October 22, 2012 » Pkgng and Freebsd 9
- October 22, 2012 » Mounting an NTFS Volume in FreeBSD 9 with the /etc/fstab File
- October 22, 2012 » Mounting an NTFS Disk with Write Capabilties in FreeBSD 9
- October 19, 2012 » Seeing 'Storage Device Performance Deteriorated' in the Logs When Using Equallogic PS 6000XV Series
- October 11, 2012 » Installing Subsonic on Fedora 17
- October 10, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 2.3 – Deploy and Maintain Scalable Virtual Networking
- October 9, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 2.2 – Configure and Maintain VLANs, PVLANs and VLAN Settings
- October 9, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 2.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Virtual Networks
- October 9, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 1.3 – Configure and Manage Complex Multipathing and PSA Plug-ins
- October 9, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 1.2 – Manage Storage Capacity in a vSphere Environment
- October 9, 2012 » Installing Mediatomb on FreeBSD 9 and Connecting to it with XBMC from a Fedora 17 OS
- October 8, 2012 » Virtual Machine Clone Fails with 'A general system error occurred: Configuration information is inaccessible' Error Message
- October 8, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 1.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Storage Solutions
- October 8, 2012 » Setup Fedora 14 Machine as a Wireless Gateway for an Internal Network
- October 8, 2012 » ESX(i) Host Randomly Disconnects from vCenter Server due to Hostd Backtracing
- October 8, 2012 » ESXi Host Receives "Warning: Host is running in audit mode. Your configuration will not be persistent across reboots" Error Message
- October 8, 2012 » Creating an LVM Logical Volume From Two Used Partitions
- October 8, 2012 » Can't Run WebSense as a VM on ESX(i) Host with HP VirtualConnect
September
- September 27, 2012 » WordPress – Error establishing a database connection, but able to connect via command line – SELinux and httpd
- September 24, 2012 » Nexus 1000v Disconnects from vCenter
- September 24, 2012 » Fixing a Ghosted/Inconsistent Distributed Virtual Switch by Migrating to a Standard Virtual Switch
- September 22, 2012 » Recreating VMFS Partitions using Hexdump
- September 22, 2012 » ESXi 4.1 Wait for Local VSA to Start Before Starting Other VMs
- September 19, 2012 » ESXi host fails to upgrade to 5.1 with Update Manager
- September 19, 2012 » A Few Words on VOMA
- September 17, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Study Guide
- September 17, 2012 » Setup Apple Wireless Keyboard via Bluetooth on Fedora 17
- September 17, 2012 » Check if Snapshot Consolidation is Occurring in the Background on an ESX(i) Host
- September 17, 2012 » Certifications
- September 14, 2012 » VMFS Datastore not Auto-Mounting on an ESX(i) Host because the VMFS Partition is Overwritten
- September 13, 2012 » VMs on PortGroup with VLAN Tag 1, Don't Have Network Connectivity
- September 10, 2012 » Blitz.io Tests Against Apache Worker, Apache Prefork, Apache with PHP-FPM, and Nginx with PHP-FPM in a 256MB RAM VPS
- September 9, 2012 » VMs Setup to Use Windows NLB in Unicast Mode Lose Network Connectivity When HP Virtual Connect Module is Replaced
- September 6, 2012 » What is the difference between a Redo log and a Snapshot?
- September 5, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 4.3 – Create an Installation Guide
- September 5, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 4.2 – Create an Implementation Plan
- September 5, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 4.1 – Create an Execute a Validation Plan
- September 4, 2012 » VMware Workstation 9 on Fedora 17 Causes Kernel Error with Message "EIP is at HostIF_SafeRDMSR+0x11/0x20 [vmmon]"
- September 4, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.6 – Determine Datacenter Management Options for a vSphere 5 Physical Design
- September 2, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.5 – Determine Virtual Machine Configuration for a vSphere 5 Physical Design
- September 2, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.4 – Determine Appropriate Compute Resources for a vSphere 5 Physical Design
- September 1, 2012 » VDR Appliance Fails to Complete Integrity Check and Fails to Backup Certain VMs
- September 1, 2012 » PXE Booting a Diskless Ubuntu Server
- September 1, 2012 » Getting OpenIndiana Back to it's Original State After Updating by Doing a Clean Install
August
- August 31, 2012 » SRM 5.x Custom SSL Certificates with Multiple Subject Alternative Names
- August 31, 2012 » Installing OpenVZ on CentOS 6 in an ESXi 5 VM
- August 31, 2012 » Corosync Pacemaker running on RHEL 6 VMs Receiving "Failed To Receive" Messages
- August 29, 2012 » PSOD Failed at vmkdrivers/src_9/vmklinux_9/vmware/linux_scsi.c:2221 — NOT REACHED
- August 28, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.3 – Create a vSphere 5 Physical Storage Design from an Existing Logical Design
- August 28, 2012 » Using VMDirectPath I/O with Multiple VMs Fails After 4 Adapters are Used
- August 28, 2012 » Migrating a ZFS Pool with ZFS Volumes Used for NFS Shares and iSCSI Comstar Volumes
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Study Guide
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.2 – Create a vSphere 5 Physical Network Design from an Existing Logical Design
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.7 – Build Security Requirements into the Logical Design
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.6 – Build Recoverability Requirements into the Logical Design
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.5 – Build Performance Requirements into the Logical Design
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.4 – Build Manageability Requirements into the Logical Design
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.3 – Build Availability Requirements into the Logical Design
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.2 – Map Service Dependencies
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.1 –Map Business Requirements to the Logical Design
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 1.3 – Determine Risks, Constraints, and Assumptions
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 1.2 – Gather and analyze application requirements
- August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 1.1 – Gather and analyze business requirements
- August 27, 2012 » Migrating the Root ZFS Pool to a Smaller Drive
- August 26, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.1 – Transition from a Logical Design to a vSphere 5 Physical Design
- August 26, 2012 » Running out of VMFS Heap on an ESX Host
- August 23, 2012 » Decrease Initial Replication Bandwidth and Time with vSphere Replication
- August 23, 2012 » Restoring from Backup in my Home Lab
- August 23, 2012 » Quick Troubleshooting Step for Pathing Issues
- August 20, 2012 » Seeing High KAVG with Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) RDMs
- August 20, 2012 » ESX(i) Host Experiencing a lot of Active Path Changes and Disconnects to/from VNX 5300 over iSCSI
- August 20, 2012 » Enabling disk.EnableUUID on a Nested ESX Host in Workstation
- August 19, 2012 » Resizing a VMDK that is protected by vSphere Replication
- August 18, 2012 » Determine Disk VPD Information from ESX Classic
- August 14, 2012 » Checking UCS Settings from the UCS Manager CLI
- August 13, 2012 » vSphere Replication Shows Replication as “not active”
- August 13, 2012 » Changing the User and Password that VRMS Uses to Connect to vCenter
- August 13, 2012 » Files created for a test failover with vSphere Replication
- August 13, 2012 » Converting a VMDK to an RDM while the VM is powered on
- August 13, 2012 » Common Commands for Nexus 1000v VSM
- August 13, 2012 » Checking if an NFS datastore is Mounted Read-Only on ESX(i) Host
- August 13, 2012 » Backup Software Fails Back to NBD When Using HotAdd
- August 13, 2012 » Adding a Physical Disk as a Mirror to an Existing Zpool
- August 11, 2012 » Quick Step by Step Guide on how to Setup the Nexus1000v Distributed Switch
- August 8, 2012 » Common 'vemcmd' Commands from a VEM Module on an ESX(i) Host
- August 6, 2012 » VCD-NI Network Pools with the Cisco Nexus1000v Distributed Switch
- August 6, 2012 » Using Custom Root CA Certificates with VMware SRM 5.x vSphere Replication
- August 5, 2012 » SRM fails to install a custom certificate with “The host name in the Subject Alternative Name of the provided certificate does not match the SRM host name.” during a modify install
- August 4, 2012 » Installing SRM with custom certificates
- August 2, 2012 » SRM 5.0 Times out on a test failover when using Mirrorview SRA 5.0.1
- August 2, 2012 » Getting an ESX Host Up on the Network, Running on VMware Workstation
- August 2, 2012 » ESXi Host Shows as Disconnected from vCenter due to Heap Depletion
July
June
May
April
- April 26, 2012 » Seeing a High Number of Trespasses from a CLARiiON Array with ESX Hosts
- April 26, 2012 » Advanced Snapshot Troubleshooting: Missing VMDK Descriptors
- April 24, 2012 » What is Seen in the Logs When Logging Into an ESX(i) Host
- April 24, 2012 » "Thin on Thin" With VMware Thin Provisioned Disks and EMC Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning
- April 24, 2012 » Getting Permission Denied Using NetApp NAS on ESX(i)
- April 24, 2012 » ESX Host Experiencing High Latency to a Hitachi HDS Array
- April 24, 2012 » Cloning a VM from the Command Line
- April 24, 2012 » Advanced Snapshot Troubleshooting: Invalid parentCID/CID chain
- April 24, 2012 » Advanced Snapshot Troubleshooting: Incorrect VMDK Geometry
- April 24, 2012 » Accidently Changed the Disk Size when the VM was Running on Snapshots
- April 23, 2012 » VMW_PSP_FIXED vs. VMW_PSP_FIXED_AP
- April 23, 2012 » Accidentally Removed vNIC from VirtualCenter Virtual Appliance
- April 17, 2012 » Enabling More Host-Resources Information from the Net-SNMP MIB on ESX Classic
- April 16, 2012 » VLAN issue with IBM VFA, be2net driver, and DVS
- April 16, 2012 » Veritas Enterprise Manager Causes SCSI Reservation issues when used with RDMs
- April 16, 2012 » Microsoft Cluster Servers Don't Work on Equalogic Array Using the DELL_PSP_EQL_ROUTED Plugin
- April 16, 2012 » Datastores show up as Snapshots after a host reboot with SRM installed
- April 16, 2012 » Cloning a VMDK While the VM is Powered On
- April 16, 2012 » Against Best Practices: vMotion and Management on the Same Network
- April 15, 2012 » Advanced Snapshot Troubleshooting: Non-Linear VMware Snapshot Chain
- April 9, 2012 » VMware Snapshot Troubleshooting
- April 9, 2012 » Restore vCenter from VDR onto a Host Being Managed by vCenter
- April 9, 2012 » Error updating Chromium on FreeBSD 8.2-p6
- April 8, 2012 » Why SCP and DD from an ESX(i) Host are not Good Performance Tools
- April 8, 2012 » Ubuntu 11.10 VMs Experience High Storage Latency on ESXi 5.0
- April 8, 2012 » Timeouts During a Cold Migration Across Datacenters
- April 5, 2012 » VEEAM Instant Recovery Fails: Unable to mount vPower NFS volume
March
- March 27, 2012 » Possible reasons for RARP storms from an ESX host
- March 26, 2012 » NetApp SnapManager/SnapDrive/SME Causes ESX Host to Hang
- March 26, 2012 » Missing links to devices on Linux VMs under /dev/disk/by-id/
- March 26, 2012 » SRM 5 Enable Array Pair Hangs at 46%
- March 26, 2012 » Changing the Path Selection Policy to Round Robin
- March 23, 2012 » How does SRM communicate with the array?
- March 21, 2012 » vMotion Causes Unicast Flooding
- March 20, 2012 » Virtual Machine Gets Disconnected After vMotion
- March 20, 2012 » Increase LVM Partition Size on a Linux VM
- March 19, 2012 » Reclaim Space in a VM on Thin or Thick VMDKs
- March 19, 2012 » Beacon Probes with Port-Channel Causing Mac-Flapping
- March 17, 2012 » Cloning Nexenta to a New Server
- March 15, 2012 » Register All VMs on a Datastore to an ESX/ESXi host
- March 10, 2012 » Determine vCenter IP from ESX host via CLI