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Comment on Physical-to-Virtual Conversions using VMWare Converter 4.0 by motogobi » VMWare Converter Failure: the STOP: 0×0000007B BSOD - the mobile gobi

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:51:34 +0000

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Comment on Setting up PowerChute Network Shutdown in VMWare ESX 3.5 by Toby Henderson

Toby Henderson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:03:31 +0000

PS. Additional ports need to be opened with version 223. Use these commands on the server to configure the firewall.

esxcfg-firewall -o 80,tcp,out,”APC PowerChute Port 80″
esxcfg-firewall -o 3052,tcp,out,”APC PowerChute Port 3052″
esxcfg-firewall -o 3052,tcp,in,”APC PowerChute Port 3052″
esxcfg-firewall -o 3052,udp,out,”APC PowerChute Port 3052″
esxcfg-firewall -o 3052,udp,in,”APC PowerChute Port 3052″
esxcfg-firewall -o 6547,tcp,out,”APC PowerChute Port 6547″
esxcfg-firewall -o 6547,tcp,in,”APC PowerChute Port 6547″

Comment on Setting up PowerChute Network Shutdown in VMWare ESX 3.5 by Toby Henderson

Toby Henderson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:01:12 +0000

Just FYI, version 2.2.3 of PCNS works fine on ESX 3.5. I have just installed and configured it on my two ESX servers without any issues, although using a slightly different method to the one you described above.

I simply copied the entire contents of the install CD to /tmp and then ran:

[root@culonesx01 tmp]# chmod +x install.sh
[root@culonesx01 tmp]# ./install.sh

Toby

Comment on Setting up PowerChute Network Shutdown in VMWare ESX 3.5 by Chase Hansen

Chase Hansen — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:01:23 +0000

Has this been tested on ESX 3.5U3?

Comment on Setting up PowerChute Network Shutdown in VMWare ESX 3.5 by Steffen

Steffen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:14:08 +0000

Hello Mike,

yes this works! (ESX 3.5 / Smart UPS 6000)
Good Instruction, thank you!

Steffen

Comment on Setting up PowerChute Network Shutdown in VMWare ESX 3.5 by mike

mike — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:07:41 +0000

Sure, Jay - I checked around a little on that second error:

cannot open packages index using db3

This might point to problems with your rpm database on that ESX host. Have you tried the following?

rpm –rebuilddb

(there are two dashes in the front of rebuilddb)

- mike

Comment on Setting up PowerChute Network Shutdown in VMWare ESX 3.5 by Jay

Jay — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:02:46 +0000

hey, great instructions, im failing on install though, it is giving me 3 errors:
cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/packages
cannot open packages index using db3 - operation not permitted
connot open packages database in /var/lib/rpm

can you help?

Comment on Ta-da! Windows 7 Beta available for download by motogobi » Allowing Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets to run with UAC off - the mobile gobi

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:31:42 +0000

[...] this - I guess I keep my desktop too cluttered up with stuff to notice? I’ve been running Windows 7 since it was released as Beta and love it. Enough so that the next laptop most likely will be a PC? (gasp!) Anyhoo, I had [...]

Comment on Simple [NOT FREE] VMWare ESX virtual machine backups by mike

mike — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:28:48 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up, John and Tony - I did look at Veeam Backup, but unless I’m missing something, they don’t offer a completely free version of their product. In my current situation, faced with tight budgets and lack of familiarity of virtualization infrastructure on the part of management, finding a tool like esXpress was like stumbling on a gold mine, albeit a little bit slower gold mine.

Cecil: it’s my job, dude. I happen to like this stuff

Tony, I understand the lack of support from VMWare - but I’ve always been somewhat surprised that an enterprise-class product like VI3 doesn’t come with an EASY backup tool to use. VCB is somewhat of a mystery to anyone getting started with their products (including me at first) and legacy agents defeat the purpose of easy bare-metal restores of your VMs. As for support, I’ll take the risk!

What I’ve found with the last two virtualization deployments I’ve worked on, time was spent on purchasing the product (VMWare) and hardware (in our case, nice HP DL-series servers) but not backup solutions. Trying to get a few extra thousand dollars allocated after the fact is often hard to do, and this is where esXpress has stepped in quite nicely for us.

- mike

Comment on Making do with less: Openfiler for networked storage by motogobi » Simple, free VMWare ESX virtual machine backups - the mobile gobi

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:15:28 +0000

[...] the network in a variety of ways - I chose FTP, which can be configured to run as a service on an Openfiler NAS (I love how infrastructure comes together like that…). Other options are SMB and SCP. One [...]