Author: Jackie Chen

VMware vSphere support for Microsoft Clustering Solutions


When DRS affinity/anti-affinity rules are used. For more information, see HA/DRS specific configuration for clustered virtual machines. See additional considerations for shared disk configurations below. Supported in Cluster in a Box (CIB) configurations only. For more information, see Considerations for Shared Storage Clustering. Reference: Microsoft Clustering on VMware vSphere: Guidelines for Supported Configurations

Check ESX Plugin for Nagios


Check ESX is a plugin developed by op5 to primarily be used with op5 Monitor, but can also be used in Nagios installations, to monitor VMware ESX and vSphere servers. You can monitor either a single ESX(i)/vSphere server or a VMware VirtualCenter/vCenter Server and individual virtual machines. If you have a VMware cluster you should … Continue reading Check ESX Plugin for Nagios →

Install WordPress on CentOS 6.3


Steps of installing WordPress on CentOS 6.3 minimal installation. 1) Install prerequisite packages. [root@CentOS ~]# yum -y install php php-mysql mysql* wget unzip 2) Download the latest version of WordPress. [root@CentOS ~]# wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip [root@CentOS ~]# unzip latest.zip [root@CentOS ~]# mv wordpress/ /var/www/html/ 3) Configure mysql database server. [root@CentOS ~]# service mysqld start [root@CentOS ~]# … Continue reading Install WordPress on CentOS 6.3 →

TSM Service Logging


The TSM service logging is disabled by default. If for some reason, the TSM service can not be started. You can turn the service logging on for troubleshooting. Set HKLM\SOFTWARE\IBM\ADSM\CurrentVersion\Server\Server1\Service\LogOutputToFile to 1 (enable) or 2 (disable)

PowerCLI: Check ESXi Scratch Location and Syslog Server Settings


As part of the ESXi health check, we need to ensure the scratch location and syslog server has been configured correctly. Here is my script to check the settings: $VMHost = Get-Content C:\powercli\Servers.txt Foreach ($_ in $VMHost) {$Scratch = Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $_ -Name ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation $SyslogServer = Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $_ -Name syslog.global.loghost$SyslogDir = Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $_ … Continue reading PowerCLI: Check ESXi Scratch Location and Syslog Server Settings →