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 »
Deploy Android Operating System on VMware ESX
The Android-x86 Project has ported Android to the x86 platform, from ARM so now you can install it on your favorite virtualisation platform (in my case I will be using VMware but you can use others like Virtual Box etc). Requirements 1. A virtualisation platform (I will be using VMware in this example only) 2…. 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 »
Your Own Cloud Managed Storage with Owncloud on VMware ESX
ownCloud is a free and open-source web application for data synchronisation, file sharing and remote storage of documents (cloud storage). ownCloud is written in PHP and javascript languages This is a great alternative to the other storage based cloud solutions as it is a “fully manage yourself” solution. As long as you trust the host… 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 »
