I'm looking at purchasing a network switch, and the only spec I'm not sure of is one specifying "buffer memory" per port. What is that used for?
I'm not using this as a production server but rather as a development box, and not being able to shut the thing down without entering stuff into the reason box is annoying. Can I disable that behavior?
I've got some NT boxes located on EC2 that I'd like to monitor. The problem is that the Nagios box needs to know an IP address it can connect to in order to do the monitoring, and the IPs of the instances change every time they start.
Is there a good way of doing this or am I going to be forced into writing a program that will poll EC2's API?
Some great helpers here have shown me the VMWare OVF tool for template deployment. My problem is that the tool itself stops at the "Disk Transfer Completed" step half the time I use it. This seems to be random, and when it happens I have to terminate OVFTool and start the transfer over again. The second attempt usually succeeds.
Is there something I have broken on the server that might affect this? I'm using the free edition of ESXi 4.0.
Billy3
EDIT: This is how ovftool is being run:
@echo off
echo Enter the server from which to backup:
set /p Server=
echo Enter the path of the VM:
set /p VmPath=
echo Enter the username with which to login to Virtual Infrastructure:
set /p User=
echo Enter the password with which to login to Virtual Infrastructure:
set /p Password=
cls
cd "%programfiles(x86)%\vmware\vmware ovf tool"
mkdir "C:\vmbackup\%vmPath%"
ovftool.exe --acceptAllEulas --chunkSize=4480mb --diskMode=monolithicSparse "vi://%user%:%password%@%server%/%vmPath%" "C:\vmbackup\%vmPath%\%vmPath:\\=|%.ovf"
pause
We have an ESXi host we use for testing, which results in a ton of VMs being created and copied on a regular basis. We don't have the storage capacity to use thick provisioned VMs on this server, and have been maintaining the copies using VMWare Converter. But using the converter is an incredibly slow operation which copies the entire contents of the VM over the network several times before actually finishing the copy.
Is there a way to simply clone the VM but maintain the thin-provisioning?
I have a setup here with a single domain controller and 4 servers which were whithin it's domain. The servers were brought down and are being repurposed, but we would like to keep backups of the machines around.
I am going through one by one and taking the backups, which requires that I login to these machines. I've been able to login to all the servers, except the domain controller. The domain controller itself seems to have not started all it's active directory services, and when one tries to login, it complains that the system cannot log you on now because the domain XXXXX is not available.
How can I login to this box?
Billy3
I have a Windows 7 machine, which I would like to use to manage Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. A while ago there was a reference to Hyper V Manager MMC on the Windows Visualization blog, but the links are now dead.
Can this be done?
Billy3