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vSphere: Create a Distributed Switch

In VMware ESX 3.x you had to make sure that is you have a cluster every host has the same network configuration with the same port group names. Whit a couple of host this isn’t that hard, but what if you have a 16 node cluster, or more? Making a change to the network configuration […]

Monday August 31st, 2009 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

vSphere: Migrate from a Thick to a Thin VMDK

Inflating a Thin VMDK to a thick VMDK is easy, just browse your Datastore, select the VDMK file you want to inflate, right mouse click on it and select inflate. Note: Your Virtual Machines needs to be powered off and inflating a disk can take-up some time. In my test I inflated a 5 GB […]

Monday August 31st, 2009 in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Extend VMFS Datastore in VMware vShpere

When your VMFS Datastore in VMware ESX 3.x was running out of disk space, you had 2 options. One was to move all of the VM’s on that Datastore to a new VMFS Datastore with more space avaliable or increase the Lun on your storage and add a extend to the excisting Datastore. There are […]

Monday August 31st, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

reinitialize ingres database for Arcserve for Linux

A couple of customers of mine have Arcserve for Linux to backup there OES2 machine. With Arcserve for Netware, if you had a problem with the database. Arcserve provided a empty database on the installation CD (You can question your self that if a vendor provides a empty database for recovery, how stable is that […]

Wednesday August 12th, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Need information to upgrade to OES2

Novell hasĀ  published a special web page where all documents are listed that you need to know to upgrade to OpenEnterpriseServer 2. So if you upgrade server on a regularly basis (Like me) or your planning to upgrade a server. Check this site!

Wednesday July 29th, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »