‘/sbin/ifup vswif0’ suceeded, but returned with non-zero status: 1″ on ESX Service Console

“‘/sbin/ifup vswif0’ suceeded, but returned with non-zero status: 1” on ESX Service Console Issue When trying to configure the IP address or enable a Service Console the following error may appear: # esxcfg-vswif -e vswif0 Error trying to perform operation Exec of command ‘/sbin/ifup vswif0’ suceeded, but returned with non-zero status: 1 In addition the…

Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled

Error when enabling HA on ESX 3.5 i servers : Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled This error you get from a lack of storage reservation for saving the HA settings on the ESX3.5i. You can set this using the following procedure. To enable swap on your ESXi 3 host system: On the VirtualCenter Server,…

3D Desktop Virtualization – All media CODECs, All Graphics, All USB

3D Desktop Virtualization – All media CODECs, All Graphics, All USB Zie hier een demo van de nieuwe features welke op korte termijn mogelijk zijn binnen de virtual machines. Bidirectionele video en audio. Vmware zal de PCoIP chip integreren in de producten hiermee zal de VDI infrastructuur pas echt een vlucht gaan nemen wegens het…

ESX commando’s

ESX Commands Q: De Serviceconsole Switch back in default VLAN.A: esxcfg-vswitch -p Service Console -v 0 Q: List van de virtual SwitchesA: esxcfg-vswitch -l Q: enablen disk resignatureA: esxcfg-advcfg -s 1 /LVM/EnableResignature Q: Rescan ISCSI datastores on ESX hosts (Rescan van de hba32)A: esxcfg-rescan vmhba32

PXE Boot

For those of you wondering if this is possible I have managed to get this working. Here's what you need to do: 1) On your RIS server create the following folder structure: SetupEnglishImagesPXELinuxi386templatespxelinux.cfg (pxelinux.cfg is a fodler) 2) Download the latest version of syslinux from:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ 3) From the ESX 3 (this works with 2.5.x as…