Monthly Archives: June 2012

kleine Töff Runde…

kleine Töff Runde:

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always start vSphere client in English (or German)

edit the VMware vSphere Client icon and add the parameter -locale: “C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\VpxClient.exe” -locale en-US other locales are: de-DE en-GB fr-FR  

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Brocade SAN Switch Commands

some usefull Brocade SAN Switch commands: Settings tsclockserver <ip>: set NTP server for time synchronization. theoretically only needed on one switch… (Bug in Firmware 6.2 !) tsclockserver LOCL: disable NTP server tstimezone: to set the timezone. for Switzerland use Zurich: … Continue reading

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Netapp NFS export example for VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi always connects with root. /etc/exports /vol/esx_iso    -sec=sys,rw=192.168.1.31:192.168.1.32,root=192.168.1.31:192.168.1.32 /vol/esx_swap    -sec=sys,rw=192.168.1.31:192.168.1.32,root=192.168.1.31:192.168.1.32 /vol/esx_data    -sec=sys,rw=192.168.1.31:192.168.1.32,root=192.168.1.31:192.168.1.32 /vol/esx_os    -sec=sys,rw=192.168.1.31:192.168.1.32,root=192.168.1.31:192.168.1.32

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SMVI Jobs partially successful

if the mail notification looks like this: Backup backup_Daily Prod_20120419200002 completed with status partial success. Following VMs were not backed up : [myvm, myothervm] and the Log in \\vcenter\c$\Program Files\NetApp\Virtual Storage Console\smvi\server\repository\logs\jobid\jobname_timestamp.xml says: VMware Task “CreateSnapshot_Task” for entity “myvm” failed … Continue reading

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