Two RAID volumes, VMware kernel/console running on a RAID1, vmdks live on a RAID5. Entering a login at the console just results in SCSI errors, no password prompt. Praise be, the VMs are actually still running. We're thinking, though, that upon reboot the kernel may not start again and the VMs will be down. We have database and disk ba...
VMware ESX, ESXi, and VirtualCenter are supposed to be able to support HTTP PUT uploads since version 3.5. I know how to do downloads, that's easy. I've never done PUT before. Background information on the topic is here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/117504 ...
I've download the SDK to try to copy the image to my PC from the server but no cmdlet for copy just get info moving etc any help? ...
Has anyone had any luck using the swiSCSI driver on ESXi? Following the instructions from VMWare.com I get to the point where I have the iSCSI HBA showing up but no LUNs/targets are showing up. The iSCSI target is running on Solaris 10 update 5 and works with other initiators fine. The ESXi initiator (from the logs) sees the targets b...
When trying to partition a hard drive on ESX server I frequently run into the following problem: $ fdisk /dev/sdd Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous co...
Hi, Does anyone have experience of comparing Xen Server 5 and VMWare Infrastructure 3. I'm planning a virtualization project and looking at the Enterprise edition of both. They both seem to offer very comparable functionality so am unsure which is the best option. Does anyone know any good sites or articles that compares these products...
I have a VMWARE ESX server. I have Redhat VMs running on that server. I need a way of programatically testing if I'm running in a VM. Ideally, I'd like to know how to do this from Perl. ...
We are a startup company and doesnt have invested yet in HW resources in order to prepre our dev and testing environment. The suggestion is to buy a high end server, install vmware ESX and deploy mutiple VMs for build, TFS, database, ... for testing,stging and dev enviornment. We are still not sure what specs to go with e.g. RAM, whether...
In VMware ESX/i, how can I use the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Remote CLI to find unused machines/disks? I have a huge inventory and many files on disk, and I want to find files that are candidates for deletion. What I want is to determine whether a vmdk disk is in use by any vmx machine on the host, or whether a vmx machine exists...
I know the difference between sparse and compressed images and I think that compressed images is better to move images from a central repository to a Hypervisor. More over, vmdk (Compressed) is defined like the standard disk used in OVF specification. More over, other hypervisor like virtualbox supports this vmdk compressed format. My...
Hi, ESX, Hyper-V, and Virtual Server all have their own, non-interoperable APIs. Do you know of any library that unifies these? Thanks, J. ...
I'd like to have my ESX hosts add themselves to vCenter during the kickstart process (or in a script that runs after the first boot). I can't find a method for doing this; is there one? ...
I have an idea to streamline deployments of prototypes within our team using VMs. The idea would be that a developer would be able to deploy their artifacts to Maven, then use a Web interface to pull them onto a development VM for integration/regression testing. They would then be able to to push those artifacts to a reference system, an...
I've read over this question and I think that is a great start, but I'm looking for more insight. I have written an application using Python 2.6 and Django 1.2.1. I would like to deploy this application on a system that does not have Python 2.6 or Django installed. The system itself doesn't have many things installed - sqlite3, pysqlite...
Now I am successfully using WebClient.DownloadString to get file content from ESX server. My URI is something like: https://<ip>/folder/<file-path>?dcPath=ha-datacenter&dsName=<datastore-name> But how can I get a content of a hidden file (e.g. '.myfile')? UPDATE: I have the 404 or Not Found error message when I ...