Scenario: Create LUN in Openfiler from new disk.
System: Openfiler ESA 2.9
Steps:
1) Click Volumes >> Click Block Devices,in picture below we see new drive /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc as plan we will create LUN in /dev/sdb then continue click /dev/sdb.
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Scenario: Installing Openfiler at sda 40GB size.
System: Openfiler ESA 2.99.1
Steps:
– Download Openfiler iso from here.
– Booting from Openfiler iso/DVD.
– Select Graphical Mode press Enter.
– Click Next.
– Select Keyboard -> Click Next then select Yes to initialize drive,erasing ALL DATA.
– Continue click Next if using default Openfiler partition table. I setup LVM for /var and swap for easy increase the space in the future.
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Scenario:
Clone RHEL 6 VM template to NFS server using Clonezilla for deploy to physical server.
System included:
– Clonezilla iso.
– RHEL 6 VM Template.
– Windows server 2012 R2 NFS server.
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Scenario: Install VMware-tools CentOS 6 on VMware ESXi 6
Steps:
– Right click on guest VM.
– Select Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. Note: VMware tools installer will assign as CD/DVD or iso image in the server.
– Login as root access the server or SSH remote to install VMware tools.
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Scenario: Check the UUID of VMWare ESX host
System: VMWare ESX 5.5
Steps:
– Type below url to web browser.
https://[Esx HOST IP Address]/mob/?moid=ha-host&doPath=hardware.systemInfo
Example:
Reference:
http://www.techadre.com/content/howto-find-esx-server-uuid-aka-host-id
Procedure:
1. Open a command window in the guest operating system, obtain and import the VMware Packaging Public Keys.
# mkdir /opt/vmtools-key ; cd /opt/vmtools-key
# wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub
# wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub
# rpm --import VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub
# rpm --import VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub
Here’s how to upload an iso image if you want to install a Virtual Machine on VMware ESXi 5 from iso datastore using VMware vSphere Client
Go to Summary => choose your datastore then right click => click Browse Datastore
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Pada versi Citrix XenServer 6.x, kemampuan GUI/XenCenter untuk seting auto-start Virtual Machine pada startup XenServer telah dihapus. Fungsi auto-start telah dihapus karena mengganggu fungsi fitur High Availability(HA)
Setting the XenServer to allow Auto-Start:
1. Gather the UUID’s of the pools you wish to auto-start.
2. To get the list of the pool’s on your XenServer type:
[sourcecode language=”plain”]# xe pool-list[/sourcecode]
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Reference
https://support.citrix.com/servlet/KbServlet/download/32303-102-691296/guest.pdf
These are step by step example to import Linux CentOS VM .xva into XenServer v6.1 via XenCenter based on reference link above..
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