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We experienced a few issues with the StorageTek 2540 array that forms the core of our SAN recently. The symptom was that the array flagged itself as being in a degraded state and that one or more volumes were not assigned to the preferred controller. The first step was to upgrade the SAN firmware …
If you need to show progress during dd copy, you can firstly find PID with ps -A|grep dd then you can send signal USR1 to this process with the following command kill -USR1 “DDPID” If you like to run automaticaly every x second you can use the command watch as watch -n 5 kill -USR1 …
1) Download the vSphere CLI 4.1 and install 2) From the VMware vSphere CLI command line, type: vicfg-snmp.pl –server ESXIHOSTIP -c COMMUNITYNAME -p 161 -t DESTINATIONHOSTIP@161/COMMUNITYNAME 3) Enabling agent vicfg-snmp.pl –server ESXIHOSTIP –E
The following procedure was used to convert a virtual machine from Oracle VirtualBox to VMWare. In most cases, administrators are trying to convert from VirtualBox to VMWare. Export the Appliance Export a VirtualBox Appliance from within VirtualBox. File, Export Appliance… Check box for “Write legacy OVF 0.9” Choose a location and save. After the export …
As reported on bugs.launchpad.net, Ubuntu 11.04 soffer of kernel bug on ath9k module. The bug consist in a very slow or not responding wireless connection (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+source/linux/+bug/735171) The kernel was rebuild to correct the problem and now is in proposed repository. To enable this repo, you can follow the link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed
To unpack initram you could use the following command gunzip < initramfs.img|cpio -i after make the change you can repack with the following command find | cpio -H newc -o|gzip > ../initramfs.img
Robocopy with VSS Attached the zip with pdf and all files needed to use vss with robocopy to copy open files.
To reconfigure the installer to format VMFS partitions with a specified block size: Boot the ESX installation DVD and choose Install in graphical mode. Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to switch to the shell. Run: ps | grep Xorg Kill the PID which shows Xorg -br -logfile …. For example, run: kill 590 Where 590 is the PID, …
Symptoms When creating a snapshot for the virtual machine, you experience these symptoms: In the vSphere Client, you see the error: File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore In the /var/log/vmware/hostd.log file, you see the error: Snapshot guest failed: The file is too big for the filesystem. Calculating the overhead required by …
Robocopy’s “inter-packet gap” (IPG) option allows some control over the network bandwidth utilized in a session. In theory, the following formula expresses the delay (D, in milliseconds) required to simulate a desired bandwidth (BD, in kilobits per second), over a network link with an available bandwidth of BA kbps: