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I already wrote about how to enable and configure SNMP on VMware ESXi 5 . But I was quite short on what you really get from SNMP. Here’s a bit more details.Continue reading...
One of the missing feature in the free version of ESXi 5 is the ability to move Virtual Machines between Datastores (Storage vMotion) and/or ESXi servers (vMotion). There is, however, a way to move a Virtual Machine from one hypervisor to another or to use another storage space ; at the cost of VM outage duration.
Here’s a brief review of what can be done and how regarding Virtual Machine instances and storage migration.Continue reading...
I installed NexentaStor Community 3.1.2 on my VMware ESXi 5.0 and wanted to get the VMware tools running ; mostly because I know there are tools for Solaris and it may improve the Administrator Experience.
The virtual machine is configured as “Oracle Solaris 11 (64-bit)” Guest OS. It has 2 vCPU and 4GB of RAM. There are also two Mapped Raw LUN attached to it. The VMware Tools installation is nearly straight forward.Continue reading...
For some reasons, I need to create a secondary administration network on my ESXi servers. As I don’t need the routing stuff, I thought I’d create IP aliases as I would do with any UNIX server. But on the ESXi, it is just no possible, AFAIK.
The solution is to create another VMkernel port, used for management, on the ESXi. As I don’t want to use any extra hardware, I’ll create the portgroup in the existing vSwitch. Here’s how.Continue reading...
In VMware ESXi 5, SSH is enabled through the “Configuration / Security Profile / Services” section. When you connect using the root user, you have to specify the root password. If you want to use SSH keys, the only thing you have to do is copy them, over ssh, to a dedicated directory:
# cd ~/.ssh # scp id_rsa.pub authorized_keys root@esxi:/etc/ssh/keys-root/ You can now connect to the ESXi using your SSH keys (and the `ssh-agent`).Continue reading...