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VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere

Check the compliance of your IT infrastructure against specific standards and best practices that are applicable for the environment. The Compliance Checker is a free, downloadable, fully-functional product for checking compliance of your environment to help you ensure that it remains secure and compliant.You need to download Compliance Checker for…Continue readingVMware Compliance Checker for vSphere

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How do you enable VMware ESX Server to be monitored using SNMP?

How do you enable VMware ESX Server to be monitored using SNMP? To enable SNMP in ESX Server, follow these simple steps: Connect to your server via SSH or go to the server’s console Edit /etc/snmp/snmp.conf and add a community string to the rocommunity value Enable SNMP to start automatically when the…Continue readingHow do you enable VMware ESX Server to be monitored using SNMP?

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Understanding the files that make up a VMware virtual machine

Understanding the files that make up virtual machine (VM) can ease management tasks, enabling you to clean up unnecessary files and more. In this tip, we will cover the components that make up a VM on an ESX host. In part one, we broke down virtual machines (VMs) is from a…Continue readingUnderstanding the files that make up a VMware virtual machine

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Choosing a block size when creating VMFS datastores

When you create a VMFS datastore on your VMware ESX servers many administrators select the default 1MB block size without knowing when or why to change it. The block size determines the minimum amount of disk space that any file will take up on VMFS datastores. So an 18KB log…Continue readingChoosing a block size when creating VMFS datastores

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VMware ESX and ESXi 4.1 Comparison

Capability VMware ESX VMware ESXi Service Console Service Console is a standard Linux environment through which a user has privileged access to the VMware ESX kernel. This Linux-based privileged access allows you to manage your environment by installing agents and drivers and executing scripts and other Linux-environment code. VMware ESXi…Continue readingVMware ESX and ESXi 4.1 Comparison

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List of Known Issues vSphere 4.1

The known issues are grouped as follows: •             Installation Issues •             Upgrade Issues •             Networking Issues •             Storage Issues •             Server Configuration Issues •             vCenter and vSphere Client Issues •             Migration Issues •             VMware HA and Fault Tolerance Issues •             Guest Operating System Issues •             Supported Hardware Issues •             Internationalization…Continue readingList of Known Issues vSphere 4.1