I recently had to connect two 4TB sata disks to a server to provide some raw storage to the network. Going on past experiences I didn’t want to virtualise the disks but rather present them to the virtual machine guest as a raw device mapping (RDM). You will need a separate datastore that is separate… Read more »
Enable SNMP Traps on a VMware ESX 5.1 + Physical Host
I reinstalled my VMware ESX servers the other month and haven’t got around to setting the SNMP traps back up for Observium to use so I thought I’d make a quick article to show how it is done (as I had to look it up again). 1. Log into the console or shell to the… Read more »
Automatically Reboot VMware ESX Host after Purple Screen of Death (PSOD)
The default and recommended setting is to leave the purple screen of death up to help you notice that the host has died and also leave the PSOD up to help troubleshoot the issue because on reboot you can loose your logs. 1. Shell (SSH) into the physical host or access the host directly… Read more »
Install VMTools for Ubuntu or Debian using Bash Scripts
If you are looking to install VMware VMTools on multiple Ubuntu or Debian Linux servers and don’t feel like typing commands all day then you can run this bash script to install it automatically so long as you are willing to accept all defaults. 1. Mount VMtools 2. Create script folder mkdir -p /scripts 3…. Read more »
Change VMware ESX Scatch Config Location (.locker)
Best practice for a .locker scratch folder VMware recommends that the ESXi has a persistent scratch location available for storing temporary data including logs, diagnostic information and system swap space however it is not a absolute requirement. Persistent scratch space may be provisioned on a FAT 16, VMFS or NFS partition accessible by the phyiscal… Read more »
