vSphere Storage Applicance is aimed at the SMB (Small and Mid-size Business) customers who may not be in a position to purchase a physical SAN or NAS array for their virtual infrastructure, and as a result, these customers do not have shared storage.
Author: Jackie Chen
Create Passwordless SSH
Two steps to create passwordless SSH/SCP:1) Run 'ssh-keygen' to generate the key pair.2) Run 'ssh-copy-id root@remote' to copy the public key to the remote host
New Version of VMware Boomerang is Released
Boomerang is a neat and handy FREE tool that allows you to connect to virtual machines across mutliple ESXi hosts or vCenter servers in a single portal. http://labs.vmware.com/flings/boomerang
Force Mounting VMFS Datastore in ESXi 5.0
We had an issue last week that in our vSphere cluster (6 ESXi 5.0 hosts, 3 datastores), two hosts can not see one of the datastores. The issue was caused by that a guy in my team did not follow the proper LUN operation procedure. I tried to add the storage back in the vSphere … Continue reading Force Mounting VMFS Datastore in ESXi 5.0
Batch Script: Send Email
sendmail is a handy tool that can be used in batch script to send email. 1) Configure your SMTP settings in the sendmail.ini file. Following is a sample to use Gmail: [sendmail]; you must change mail.mydomain.com to your smtp server,smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com ; smtp port (normally 25)smtp_port=465 ; error logerror_logfile=mail_error_log.txt ; Gmail username and passwordauth_username=xxxxxx@gmail.comauth_password=*********** ; the … Continue reading Batch Script: Send Email
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