One of the advantages ESX had over ESXi was the ability to install Dell’s OpenManage Server Administrator software in the service console. While reading the VMware ESXi Chronicles blog I came across the following, which made wonder how I was going to manage an ESXi host.
“In the future, ESXi’s superior architecture will be the exclusive focus of VMware’s development efforts.”
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After installing VMware Tools on a CentOS 5.3 guest hosted on ESX 4 I was receiving the following udev warnings during startup.
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SquidGuard is an excellent content filter that integrates with the Squid proxy software. Unfortunately CentOS only includes an RPM for Squid, and Fedora and Diag Wieers only had version 1.2 available. Read more…
I could never hear anybody with the AT&T AudioPara4 file. I performed the registry tweak to switch to the stock AudioPara3 file. You can use Diamond Tweak to accomplish this as well with the 100db European Limit tweak. This improved the volume but distorted the speakerphone at the higher levels. Read more…
After upgrading to VMware Server 2, I have sporadically received an error message stating “vmware ServiceNotAvailableException: Web service not available”. There isn’t much information on the cause of this error, but I found disabling IPv6 resolved it for me. Read more…
When hot adding a SCSI device, such as a hard drive, you might have noticed that it doesn’t show in /dev. You can either reboot, which defeats the purpose of hot adding the device, or notify Linux to rescan the SCSI bus. Read more…
If you are hosting email for more than one domain you might want to look into virtual hosting. With virtual hosting most choose to use database vs files to store the mailbox information. Not only does this allow a more flexible configuration, but the ability to use a web interface such as Postfix Admin. Out of the box Fedora Core 8 Postfix RPM does not support mySQL or quota support. However a simple recompile and install of the resulting package will get you up and running. Read more…