Sysadmin Stories

Short stories on virtualization, clouds and other technologies based on personal experiences and opinions.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Masking and unmasking LUNs from ESXi

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In this post I`ll present how to mask/unmask a LUN with MASK_PATH plugin and using esxcli on ESXi 5.1.  MASKING The  datastore to be ma...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

PowerCLI - Starting and stopping SSH

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From time to time I need to go connect on the ESXi using SSH. I know it is not best practice, still I have to do it. And the most simple ta...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

VMware DirectPath I/O - adding passthrough PCI devices to VM

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VMware DirectPath I/O allows guest OS to directly access physical PCI and PCIe devices connected to host. There several things to check befo...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

vShield Edge Gateway "IP Masquerading" in vCD 5.1

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vCloud Director 5.1 comes with some changes from 1.5, in the sense that IP masquerading setting was removed and there is no default rule on...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Linux - adding a user to multiple servers

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When I am not working on VMWare infrastructure, I face administration tasks at OS level. Since I am writing the scripts, I will try to post...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Adding a new portgroup to vSwitch using PowerCLI

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This time I will present a very short powercli that I use to mass change ESXi hosts vSwitches. First, it retrieves a specific cluster, the...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Installing vCloud Director on CentOS and MS SQL Express - part 3

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This is part 3 of a 3 part post that presents installation of vCloud Director 5.1 on CentOS 6.3 and MySQL Server 2012 Express part 1 pre...
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