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The specified key, name, or identifier already exists

17 December 2007

This was an interesting error I came across today when I was trying to clone a VM.
To resolve it I did a:
service mgmt-vmware restart
on the host.
Alternatively you can also issue:
service mgmt-vmware restart
service mgmt-vpxa restart
service mgmt-vmkauthd restart
Cheers.

ESX ISO Directory

11 December 2007

Here is a good method to have a central location for all your ISO files in your ESX environment. You could put them on say your Virtual Center server if it’s physical:
From the ESX host:
mount -t smbfs -o username= //windows server/share /vmimages/ISO” you can also use a windows domain username by typing “username=,workgroup=”
You will […]

Enable VT in Dell D630

21 November 2007

So I wanted to do some virtualization testing on my notebook, but couldn’t find where to enable VT. Here is where:
POST Behavior/Virtualization - Enabled
Another note, if you have a D630, at the time of this posting the A04 bios is out now.
Cheers.

ESX3i Virtualized

15 November 2007

VMware ESX3i is VMware’s new ESX options which provides a much lighter package for deploying ESX.
Over at happyrouter.com, they have a little video that show you how to virtualize ESX3i inside VMware workstation so you can play around with it a little. The video can be found here.
This is basically called VMware in a box […]

VCP Test

29 June 2007

I’ll be taking my VCP test next month, so I’ll be a VMware Certified Professional. It will be a very nice addition to the ol resume. VCP is someone of an elite cert because to get it you have to attend VMware’s official course. Some people are opposed to this, but I think it’s a […]

Server unexpectedly closed network connection

16 June 2007

Server unexpectedly closed network connection
This is a problem I was having today while making a remote connection via SSH with Putty into a Red Hat (RHEL) box. When trying to connection it would give me theerror message “Server unexpectedly closed network connection”.
First I checked var/log/messages and it was reporting:
ssdh: refused connect from xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Then I revied […]

Device eth0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring

14 June 2007

Today I received this error when restoring a Red Hat Linux Virtual Machine.
This is probably more of a work around than a fix, but I edited:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and removed the MAC address entry.
Then I initialized the NIC, and it came up fine.


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