By default vSphere does not provide client for Linux or OS X. You need to use Windows system to manage your VMware ESX server. However, it does provides vSphere Web Access which allows you to organize and share virtual machines using web browser. If you try to access vSphere Web Access you may get an [...]
Recently, I noticed that the timeout values differ on CentOS v5.x and RHEL Linux 5.x guests on VMWare ESX4 and ESX3.5. I’ve notices that older ESX 3.5 set a 60 secs timeout and ESX4.x set to 180 secs. Luckly you can fix it easily: Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules, # vi /etc/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules Sample config: RUN+=”/bin/sh -c ‘echo 180 [...]
Many a time I cursed and vailed because VMware had let me down. Here is a “quick” and dirty way to access your corrupted VMware server/workstation .vmdk files. Here is how I managed to recover Zimbra mail servers “mail folders” (Ubuntu6/ext3) from corrupted VMware server image using WindowsXP, VMware Server, Ken Kato’s “Virtual Disk Driver [...]
As a system admin, I need to use additional hard drives for to provide more storage space or to separate system data from user data. This procedure, adding physical block devices to virtualized guests, describes how to add a hard drive on the host to a virtualized guest using VMWare software running Linux as guest. [...]
