Posts Tagged ‘ VMware ESX ’

Scripts to automate the process of identifying and compiling an RDM to LUN mapping list for VMware ESX 3.0

October 16, 2009
By Andrew Lin

In an earlier posting I listed a copy of the article explaining how to manually create a RDM to LUN mapping for VMware ESX. I have created scripts to completly automate this process, ftp the result and email the result file. Save the below commands in a file and make it executable. Name...
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How to identify and compile a RDM to LUN mapping list for VMware ESX 3.0

October 16, 2009
By Andrew Lin

Below is a copy of the article from VMware knowledge base. It explains the steps to create the Raw Decive Mapping to Logical Unit Number. But is you have a VMserver with many virtual clients and LUNs attached, then this manual procedure can take hours. I have created scripts to automate...
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Enable outbound FTP ports on VMware ESX server.

August 26, 2009
By Andrew Lin

The operating system on VMware ESX 3 is a striped down version of linux. It has only the bare necessities for VMware to function. I wanted to configure a cron job to email the log file, but because sendmail is not installed the mailto command did not work. I decided to write a...
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