Friday, September 30, 2011

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 How to find  WWN number of HBA in LINUX cat /sys/class/fc_host/host1/port_name Note:host1 refers either host1 or host2 & OS is RHEL 6...

Monday, September 26, 2011

Configuring the ESXi firewall in VMware vSphere 5 VMware vSphere 5 features a new ESXi firewall that you can configure though the vSphere Client or command line. The addition brings a feature to ESXi 5 that was previously found only in the recently discontinued ESX hypervisor. VMware argued that ESXi didn't require a firewall, because the lightweight hypervisor had hardly any services or ports open, leaving it with almost nothing to attack. I believe VMware added a firewall to ESXi 5 for...
As I was wading thru all of the new materials from yesterday, I thought it would be helpful to create a big list of all of the new features in vSphere 5.0.  There were really only a few named in the presentation (or else the preso would have been 3 hours and put the analysts to sleep).  While we wait for the release notes, I put together this list for you.  This is not every new feature, but rather as many as I could find or remember.  I’ve also added a quick blurb on...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

LVM  CONFIGURATION ON LINUX 1 LVM Layout Basically LVM looks like this: You have one or more physical volumes (/dev/sdb1 - /dev/sde1 in our example), and on these physical volumes you create one or more volume groups (e.g. fileserver), and in each volume group you can create one or more logical volumes. If you use multiple physical volumes, each logical volume can be bigger...