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ESXi – How to reset the root password

19 April 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesReset the root password with ESX 3.x was quite simple, just because the service console was a partition writable a live CD… With ESX 4.x it was a little more complicated (the service console was basically a vmdk). But with ESXi things are more complicated, due to the partition layout, that ESXi works in RAM and that all configurations files are stored in the banks it special archive files. The file containing the password hashes is called “shadow” and it is is contained in  a nested structure of archives inside the state.tgz file.

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New certifications from Microsoft

16 April 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesMicrosoft has recently made some changed in certifications and also has introduced new paths, like the new MCSE: Private Cloud certification. The path has the following requirements: become a MCSA: Windows Server 2008 pass the Exam 247: Configuring and Deploying a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 (Until January 31, 2013, Exam 70-659 may be taken in place of 70-247) pass the Exam 246: Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Note The Private Cloud certification requires candidates to show continued ability to perform in this technology area by completing a recertification […]

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KEMP Virtual LoadMaster – Configuration

12 April 2012
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAs written in the previous post, there are two vNIC in the VLM appliance, because there are two different scenarios of network topologies (well described in the LoadMaster Installation & Configuration Guide at pages 12-13): one-armed (similar to a bastion host firewall configuration) or two-armed (similar to a firewall dual-homed). Looking at those configurations, and comparing with Linux Virtual Server, seems that the forward methods (Direct Server Return and NAT) are bounded with the network topology. But for VLM there is no correlation and you can use the preferred forward methods (although DRS remain the […]

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Dell announces intent to acquire Wyse Technology

2 April 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDell today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, to significantly extend its desktop virtualization offerings. After the recent AppAssure and SonicWall acquisition is a new move to increase the solutions portfolio: the addition of Wyse will expand Dell’s desktop virtualization capabilities and provide new solutions and services opportunities for the full range of Dell’s enterprise offerings. Wyse’s assets will add to Dell’s existing desktop virtualization offerings, Desktop Virtualization Solution Simplified and Desktop Virtualization Solution Enterprise, and its recent Desktop as a Service (DaaS) […]

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VMware View 5.0.1 upgrade path

26 March 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAs written, VMware has release a week ago the new version of VMware View 5.0.1 (with the new build 640055), as also the new version of vSphere 5.0U1. Note that the VMware Composer remain the same 2.7.0 (build 481620) of previous version. As report in the VMware View 5.0 Installation Guide (page 10), the VMware Composer is compatible with vSphere 5.0 and later, so it is just a piece that will not need any upgrade. Actually the View documentation is not changes to reflect the new version, it remain a simple 5.0 version. So the […]

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Issue (or feature) in vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1

25 March 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week VMware release a complete update of the entire cloud platform, including the new vSphere 5.0 Update 1. But, compared with the 5.0 version, the new vCenter Server 5.0 U1 has a new feature (of bug, depending of the point of view) that now disable the VM Startup & Shutdown properties for all the host (also old version) in a VMware cluster:

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Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for Linux 1.1 – Some notes

20 March 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutesHas written in the previous post, Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for Linux 1.1 officially support only a few Linux OS, but it can work fine also on others. Actually the distributions is RPM based, so there is a bigger effor to port it to other distro, like Debian and Ubuntu. I’ve tried with a updated release of CentOS 6.2 and it works fine, but you will need some packages that may be not installed (and also dkms that is not included in the installation source): yum install iscsi-initiator-utils libpcap gcc make rpm -Uhv http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm […]

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