This weekend I had the fun of getting my hands and feet wet with installs of VMware’s ESXi 6.5 and vCenter 6.5. The links below should be useful to any of you looking to learn about the new release and download bits to install. Release Notes: vSphere / ESXi 6.5 vSphere Client (HTML5) 6.5 vSphere […]
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I’ve been using vCenter 6 for a while now and noticed an odd issue pertaining to snapshots. It seems that all guest show a “revert to current snapshot” state even if a snapshot does not actually exist. However viewing under the Snapshot Manger… shows no existing snapshots associated with the virtual machine guests. I’ve noticed […]
I just completed my ntopNG appliance setup. Once more I can look into my network traffic to get an idea of what’s going on. Below you will find the steps to complete the install Here are the steps Log into the ubuntu server host and issue the following commands: sudo into root: sudo -i wget http://www.nmon.net/apt-stable/14.04/all/apt-ntop-stable.deb […]
Using templates save you lots of time when it comes to deploying virtual machines. And if you are looking to get a slight edge on your deployments in lab or production using customization specifications may be the way you want to go. Here are some quick steps to deploy using this method: From the […]
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My eth0 is now called eno16777736
Interesting and new to me is that my network interface which was known to be called eth0 is now called eno16777736 in my new installs. The following document indicates that 16777736 is the device’s acpi_index as provided by the firmware (BIOS/EFI) This seems to happen on my VMware hosts where I’ve installed the latest Ubuntu OS releases. […]
I am excited about the release of VMware Labs Flings release of version 3 of the Embedded Host Client. For those of you who find yourself out of the loop at time, no worries it happens. Here is some details about the the embedded host client: The Embedded Host Client is written purely in HTML and JavaScript, […]