Category: Vmware
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Bridging all VLANs Into/Through A VMware ESXi VM
Recently I was assisting with a Preseem server configuration. These boxes want to be bridged in the traffic path. If you want to do this in an ESXi VM, this can be a little obtuse. As per this VMware link, setting the VLAN to 4095 will instruct the vswitch to pass all VLANs through unmolested.…
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Centos VM Duplication Not Detecting NIC
So I duplicated a VM in VMware 5.5 that happened to be Centos 6. I added a new NIC and set the NIC type to E1000. I booted up the machine and…nothing. It didn’t see the NIC. I ran setup…and it didn’t see the NIC. After much time an annoyance I eventually issued one simple…
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Mikrotik VRRP On VMWare
I keep a VMWare server at the house to mock up configs on. I love being able to ramp up and down to test as many routers at once as I like. While working on an VRRP implementation recently I hit a small problem…it wouldn’t work! I made a little video outlining the problem and…
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Expand A Drive On Virtualized Windows 2008
I CAN’T belive how easy this was…Just crazy. Basically, you enter vSphere and expand the HD. Enter the server’s disk management and refresh. Click expand on the drive you want to expand, click next a couple of times…and you are DONE! Just follow these quick and easy steps here on petri.co.il.
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VM Failover With SAN Replication Across Multiple Datacenters
This video and the included configs/diagrams show how to have failover with VM infrastructure/SAN replication in multiple datacenters. This basically leverages the power of BGP to move our public addressing. BGP is the ONLY choice to have addressing seamlessly migrate from one site to another…it is the protocol that the Internet happens to run on…
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VMWare Network Redundancy
My VMware ESXi servers have two NICs which I maintain as much redundancy on as possible. I configure the two intefaces to be in the same virtual switch and they failover to each other. I actually trunk switch ports to each NIC and run VLAN interfaces. Here’s a quick video that shows you how to…
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Update Vmware ESXI4.1
To run updates on your ESXI4.1 server you no longer get the nice little GUI. You now have to do your updates via the CLI. You can see the link here on how to do it or use the below syntax: # esxupdate -b cross_oem-vmware-esx-drivers-net-vxge_400.2.0.28.21239-1OEM.vib -b cross_oem-vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-3w-9xxx_400.2.26.08.036vm40-1OEM.vib -b vmware-esx-firmware-4.1.0-1.4.348481.i386.vib -b vmware-esx-tools-light-4.1.0-1.4.348481.i386.vib update