This week I bought myself a FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7170. I threw out my Quattrovox and hooked up my fax, ISDN phones and analog phones to the FRITZ!Box. Normally I donāt read the manual but this time I had to look some things up before I got everything working ;-). From now on all my outside calls are routed over the internet using the sip server over at Voipcheap.com. I donāt have to pay any outside telephone calls to the KPN (the largest Dutch telecom company) anymore. Now Iām talking over the Internet with Voice over IP -- without turning on your PC, and without changing my phone number. And FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN also puts my PCs on the Internet at ADSL speed -- over Ethernet, USB or wireless LAN -- always with firewall protection, and with wireless encryption activated out of the box. When you are going to configure a FRITZ!Box the first thing you should do is put it in expert mode. Donāt forget to create a dialing rule for all the numbers that start with a 0. Happy phoning!
Thursday, September 27. 2007
Vizioncore launched vRanger Pro 3.2
Vizioncore is proud to announce the GA Release of vRanger Pro 3.2. vRanger Pro 3.2 is the recognized industry-standard backup and restore solution for virtualized environments..Ā Now enabled with a VSS driver, vRanger Pro 3.2 can provide transactional consistency in backups and restores.Ā vRanger Pro is the only agent-less backup tool that can provide a consistent backup of running VMs.
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ESX 3i The Nostalgia Virtual Machine
Jainoxi made over 50 ESX 3i screenshots. Among these screen shots you can see how to create a virtual machine, how to import a virtual appliance, the Update Manager the Remote CLI VM and the Remote CLI console. But the most important is the imported Nostalgia virtual machine, this is an old DOS game running within a VM. :-)
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ESX 3i Adding SATA Storage
I bought myself a 100 ā¬ Samsung 500 Gigabyte SATA disk and hooked it up to my workstation. On the configuration tab in the VI Client I selected the Storage option and created a VMFS.Ā I immediately received a failure message stating that āThe response is not well- formed XMLā?. There was still a format task running so I waited for a half hour before I restarted the VI Client. On the Storage Adapters configuration page I discovered my newly build VMFS. I made some screen dumps during this process.
ESX 3i Uploading Files
When I tried to create my first VM on an ESX 3i Server, I realized that I needed to put an ISO on my newly build VMFS. The transfer of ISOās with FastSCP or WinSCP doesnāt work anymore because thereās no Service Console in ESX 3i. But how do I transfer an ISO to my storage ? Well you can use the Datastore Browser to upload a file from the VI Client machine to a datastore in the VI Client inventory.
To upload a file:
- Right-click on the destination datastore, and choose Browse Datastore.Ā The Datastore Browser dialog box is displayed.
Ā - Browse to the location to which you want to upload the file.
- Click the Upload icon in the Datastore Browser toolbar.Ā The Upload Items dialog box is displayed.
- Navigate to and select the item you want to upload.
- Click Upload.Ā A progress indicator displays the progress of the upload.
Tuesday, September 25. 2007
ESX 3i New Build (54662) Available
Well after the updateĀ I experienced my first purple screen of death. When I pressed the escape button I started an interactive session with the VMKDBG AKA the kernel debugger. I could see the logs and reboot the ESX 3i server. After another restart the server presentedĀ the new build number 54662.
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ESX 3i Update Service Client
Just out of curiosity I double clicked the VMware Update Service icon and before I knew it, I was downloading and installing bug fixes into the Firmware of my ESX 3i Server. The VI Client and the tools component (whatever that may be)Ā Ā were also automatically updated. I took aroundĀ 45 minutes and I had to restart my ESX 3i Server. I made some screenshots during the process. You can even schedule theĀ Update Service.
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ESX3i training video
David Davis over at HappyRouter.com created a 16 minute training video that steps you trough the installation of VMware ESX Server 3i Beta in Workstation.Ā Now, you can learn how to virtualize it for testing and demo purposes by running VMware ESX Server 3i Beta on your existing PC OS. Take a look!
Monday, September 24. 2007
So when the server goes down
This great song was the winner of the VMware Virtually Famous video competition.Ā Lodge McCammon, Brian Bouterse and Sammie Carter (employees of the Friday Institute) posted a YouTube video you can seeĀ their video clip onĀ a large video screenĀ for 10.000+ attendees at the VMworld. After the session they were presented with a check for $15,000 which was donated to the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.
NFS - The Unjust VMware Storage Outcast?
For some reason, it seems that most VMware users shrug NFS off as only being good enough to store ISO files. Many wouldn't dare run production (or in some cases, even development) environments on anything other than FC or iSCSI. Unfortunately, Thomas Bishop feels that many are missing out. You can read the full article at Scale The Mind.