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ESXi APD&PDL – Part 2 Recovery from unexpected lost iSCSI LUN

By Antti Hurme 27/11/2013 1 Comment 8 Min Read

This is a continuation on a post I wrote earlier regarding VMware iSCSI All Paths Down and Permanent Device Loss. If you havn’t seen part 1, i would recommend checking that out here. NOTE!: As with the previous post, I take no responsibility if you damage your own environment. Anything written here should be considered as helpful information debugging and solving your own problem. Take all possible precautions before you…

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Invalid IPMI MAC Address

Encountered an interesting issue when adding Power Management settings on one VMware ESXi 5.1 host today when vCenter Server returned an error message that the BMC MAC Address was invalid. The interesting thing was that I did check the Mac address prior to entering it in VMware vSphere Client and as such should have been correct. After digging trough the vCenter Server logs, located in a vCenter Server 5.1 installation:…

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VMware tools on Linux CentOS 6.x

By Antti Hurme 14/10/2013 5 Comments 1 Min Read

Installing VMware Tools on Centos 6.x is quite simple, here is a short reminder on how to do it. The examples below are for the base version of ESXi 5.1 and 5.5. If you have 5.1 Update 1, change the repository accordingly. You can also use the “latest” repository. You can browse the VMware tools repository with the following URL: http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html   CentOS 6.x 64-bit vSphere ESXi 5.1 yum -y install…

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Collection of useful VMware diagrams

By Antti Hurme 02/05/2013 No Comments 1 Min Read

VMware diagrams you might find useful: VMware vCloud Director network ports diagram (KB: 1030816) VMware vCloud Director Cell Architecture (KB: 1030954) VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram (KB: 2017642) Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x (2054806)   * Click on any of the list items to open VMware KB article with download links

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