I wanted to blog here about a silly mistake I made yesterday.
I need to expand a VM’s disk and was using the ol’ vmkfstools -X. However, I obviously do this all too flippantly and forgot to check if there was any snapshots. oops. That sunken feeling.
I corrupted the vmdk and the snapshot vmsd [...]
I managed to spend some time this morning playing with the new VMware Server 2 beta.
Firstly, a few things I had to do to get it working on a fairly vanilla Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) install:
Install xinetd:
$ sudo apt-get install xinetd
Get a VMware Server (1.x) serial number from here: [...]
Just to give you all a bit of an update. I’m pretty busy with my move to Vancouver, but I have been plugging away on things. Desperately trying to squeeze in a few more lines in the Backup/Storage/Resources page, but things are tight. I’m not that far away from publishing 1.0, but I’m off tonight [...]
At last. Version 0.9 is online . I consider this to be pretty much "feature complete". I just need help to tell me if you think there is anything inaccurate, missing or out-of date. I will tidy up the general formatting in the meantime, but please let me know what you all think. [...]
I’ve uploaded 0.8 to the usual place , with the storage section done. I’ve included some storage CLI stuff, but I might rip this back out if I am running low on space. Normally I wouldn’t use these as the VIC is the best tool for this. The only time I can see [...]
Version 0.7 is done.
I’ve been fiddling with the networking section to get it as good as I can. This is the one section where I do need to use a few COS commands, as sometimes its the only way. I’m pretty happy with its "facts to size" ratio.
Unfortunately, I think the planned section [...]
I managed to get my hands on a VMworld 3i USB key and was also accepted into the 3.5 beta programme. Both on the same day. However, it means that I’m now bound by the beta rules, until 3.5 goes GA.
I am already starting to draft a 3i command vreference card, as there is [...]
Version 0.6 of the ESX3 vreference card is out! Grab it here .
The big addition is the ESX host section. However, I have also added in some folding guides and increased the size of the text boxes so I can squeeze even more ESX goodness in. It works OK with the two [...]
I’ve just published version 0.5 of the ESX3 vmreference card.
The first public release
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