Automated BartPE Ghost CD Installer

Automated BartPE Ghost CD Installer

Recently Grayden MacLennan wrote to the Sysadmins Mailing List about using BartPE along with Ghost 8.x as a workaround for the Netgear GA621 DOS drivers not working in some buildings. BartPE will create a bootable windows CD, and from there we can run the slightly more reliable windows GA621 drivers and the windows Ghost32 client. The following is a list of instructions to recreate his work.

No Webinterface ESX 2.5

VMware

In mijn speeltuin heb ik een vmware ESX server draaien. toen zondag avond de machine weer aanslingerde kwam ik er achter dat de webinterface niet meer werkte. Na een reboot was alles weer ok. Alleen vanavond Dinsdag het zefde weer. Damn tijd voor onderzoek. De melding : 599 vmware-authd PANIC: getpeername failed: Socket operation on non-socket.

iSCSI and ESX Server 3

iSCSI and ESX Server 3

A few weeks ago I wrote about trying to use NetApp’s ONTAP Simulator as a VM under ESX Server so that I could do some testing with the new NAS and iSCSI functionality in ESX Server 3.0.  I finally got that working, but later had to shut it down when I started working with ESX Server 3.  As it turns out, the ProLiant 6400R servers I was using for my VMware lab (running ESX 2.5.x) were not supported for the final release of ESX 3 because the cpqarray.o driver was dropped from the final release, and the cpqarray.o driver is what supported the Smart Array 3200 and Smart Array 4250 RAID controllers in these two boxes.  No ESX 3 on these boxes.