Archive for the ‘VMware ESXi’ Category
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
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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
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Posted in ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Fusion, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware Converter, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
Interesting: ESXi 5.1 and rsync – damiendebin.net. It works in ESXi 5.5 too, and the French link below has a version that runs on ESXi 4.
Now you can do these forms of backup:
Posted in *nix, ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, wget | 6 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
I had to move a bunch of stuff from an old ESXI 4.1 server to a newer ESXi 5.1 server.
For that I used a Windows XP VM on the new ESXI 5.1 server that had two different 1 gigabit network connections so it could run full speed.
Speed comparison for 60 gigabytes of VMs:
I used both settings for both tools: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in ESXi4, ESXi5.1, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, Windows, Windows XP | 6 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/14
Thanks to the guys at v-front.de/2013/09/how-to-update-your-standalone-host-to.html
Do not upgrade the virtual hardware of your VMs!
If you try to upgrade the virtual hardware of your VMs to the new revision 10 after you have updated the host to ESXi 5.5 then the following warning will be displayed by the vSphere Client:
“If you upgrade the virtual hardware to this level, use the vSphere Web Client for managing these VMs.”
– Think twice here! Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13
For my links archive:
–jeroen
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