How to fix orphaned virtual machine
October 6, 2008 by John Tran · 3 Comments
If one of your virtual machines become orphaned do the following to get it online.
- Launch Virtual Center or Virtual Client
- Right click on the orphaned virtual machine
- Select ‘Remove from Inventory’
- Now select the host that you would like the VM to reside on
- Then click on the Configuration Tab
- Under the Hardware Pane located on the left, click on Storage
- You should see on the right all the Datastores
- Now double click on the Datastore where the Virtual Machine VMX file resides, this will launch the ‘Datastore Browser’
- Now locate the VMX file.
- Right click on the file and choose ‘Add to Inventory’
- Go through the wizard and your Virtual Machine should appear online again.
How to Patch/Update ESX Server Host
August 13, 2008 by John Tran · Leave a Comment
The VMWare date bug fix has just been released and I’m sure most Admins will be glad that its all over. However, if you’re new to VMWare and you want to know how to install an update without using the VMWare Update Manager then here are some simple steps you can follow.
- Download WinSCP if you don’t already have the application installed.
- Launch WinSCP and input the hostname/IP Address and username and password
- This will launch an explorer window. Create a directory named updates under the var directory
- Then move the extracted files to \var\updates directory
- On the host login into the service console.
- Navigate to \var\updates\(directory name of update) – case sensitive
- To navigate you can use the cd \var\updates\(directory name of update) command.
- once you’re in the correct directory where the updates are copied run esxupdates update
- Your updates should now be installed.
Create NFS datastore on NetApp StoreVault S550/S300
There has been alot of talk about NFS vs iSCSI and you can do a search yourself on google if you want to find out more about the difference.
The main reason why I have chosen to use NFS is because you don’t get a single disk I/O so your performance is strictly dependent upon the size of the pipe and the disk array. It is hard believe but NFS out performs both FC and iSCSI.
Creating an NFS on a NetApp StoreVault was very simple. First you need to make sure you have the NFS license installed.
Launch StoreVault Manager
Right click on exports and click on manage exports
You will see two shares one is your NAS share and the other is your NFS share
Right click on exports go to add exports and click on browse exports
In your export share you can create a folder, I have named my vmware to state that it will be used by VMWare ESX Server.
Under vmware I have created another folder called vmds to state that it will be a VM datastore. You may want to create other folders such as an ISO folder to store your ISO images.
