Archive for the ‘ESXi5.1’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Until recently, I had all my VMware vSphere Client installations inside a Windows XP VM because Windows XP: relatively light weight, but (as of writing almost) End-of-Life.
I am upgrading that install now, and actually making two installs:
- on Windows Server 2003 R2 (the main VM management VM)
- on Windows 8.1 (my main Windows work laptop)
Of course I needed the installers for vSphere Client 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5. The easiest os to get them through the direct download links at VMware: Vsphere Client Direct Download Links | tech :: stuff Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, Windows, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows XP | Tagged: VMware, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows XP, Windows XP SP2 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Thanks Robert Gamble, ephemient and Jonathan Leffler. Be sure to read the top two answers and comments for full details.
Until now, I always used $* to pass on arguments from *nux shells (bash, sh, ash, etc.). Works on ESXi as well. But that is not the correct way to do.
But “$@” is the correct way:
- Use “$@” to represent all the arguments:
for var in "$@"
do
echo "$var"
done
- As a shortcut,
for var; do ...; done means for var in "$@"; do ...; done
- Basic thesis: “$@” is correct, and $* (unquoted) is almost always wrong. This is because “$@” works fine when arguments contain spaces, and works the same as $* when they don’t. In some circumstances, “$*” is OK too, but “$@” usually (but not always) works in the same places. Unquoted, $@ and $* are equivalent (and almost always wrong).
This next to the following construct makes file processing in *nix a breeze:
for filename in *.7z; do if 7za t $filename 2>&1 > /dev/null; then echo $filename passed; else echo $filename failed; fi; done
–jeroen
via: command line – How to iterate over arguments in bash script – Stack Overflow.
Posted in *nix, bash, Cygwin, Development, ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Linux, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/27
Just in case the shit ever hits the fan:
Background information:
Notes:
bootbank, altbootbank, backup.sh, auto-backup.sh
Adding your own software to ESXi:
–jeroen
Posted in *nix, ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Tagged: disaster recovery plan, Server Fault, VMware | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/27
RouterOS runs on many kinds of hardware. Of course on the MikroTik hardware itself (which always comes with a license), but also on x86 hardware, even virtualized systems.
In that respect, it looks a bit like pfSense, or Endian, but on steroids and closed source.
Here are some links focused on MikroTik on ESXi (which is great for experimental purposes):
WOL (Wake ON LAN)
–jeroen
via: Routers.
Posted in ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Ethernet, Internet, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi, Wake-on-LAN (WoL) | Tagged: MikroTik, RouterOS | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/27
IBM isn’t all about dry corporate stuff and sometimes hard to read redbook documentation (:
I love the way they lead you do build your own VI cheat sheet step by step in vi intro — the cheat sheet method.
It is basically a vi tutorial that helps you to build up your own cheat sheet.
–jeroen Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in *nix, Cygwin, Endian, ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Linux, Power User, SuSE Linux, vi, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/25
As a follow up on my recent rsync on ESXi 5.1 post, as – when rsync in ESXi terminates the hard way because of a lost SSH connection – rsync can leave “hidden” files behind.
A small script that recursively shows the hidden files (those starting with a dot) starting from the current directory:
find . -iname ".*"
More of those (including deleting them, filtering for only files or only directories, etc) are at Linux / UNIX: Bash Find And Delete All Hidden Files Directories.
Note: don’t try to outsmart using something like piping through grep "\/\." as that will also match files who’s parent directories are hidden.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/24
Blast from the past, and happy I found back the original blog that pointed me to this: Not a complete failure » Blog Archive » How to copy a file with I/O errors?.
A long while ago, I helped out a friend with a HDD that was partially working. He neede the bits of a file that had become unreadable by regular means.
dd to the rescue: it takes a lot longer, but gets the job done eventually. Eventually can be T+eternity.
Note that you always should copy such a file to another drive, like described in the above blog.
Something like this (the parameters are explained at the dd man page):
dd if=/mounting-path/directory-path/damaged.mp4 of=resurrected.mp4 conv=noerror,sync
Usually for creating disk images, dd works on *n*x, Mac OS X, Windows with for instance Cygwin, ESXi, etc.
See also: linux – Rescuing a hdd with bad sectors: dd vs gddrescue – Super User.
–jeroen
via: Not a complete failure » Blog Archive » How to copy a file with I/O errors?.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
Interesting read: vmware – Moving Fusion VMs to ESXi – Ask Different.
I was kind of expecting something like this, as VMware has been notoriously bad at proving Mac OS X tools (whereas their VMware Workstation for Linux is on par with their Windows product, Linux also lacks a vSphere Client and a standalone VMware vCentre Converter).
Good to have my expectations confirmed. Not so good that this is a tedious process.
Note that you need twice the disk size on your Mac, as you recreate the vmdk files on your Mac in a format that ESXi understands.
Oh well…
Note there are even more tedious ways, but good to know they exist.
I really wish VMware Fusion could do what you can do with VMware Workstation to manage your ESXi hosts (including Free ESXi) & VMs.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted in ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Fusion, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware Converter, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »
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