Category Archives: Virtualization

Enabling the root user on vMA 4.1

Posted on October 7, 2010 by brian.wuchner

While using the vMA 4.1 as vi-admin, I noticed that a couple commands I tried to run (for example yum update) would fail because I was not root. When I tried to issue ‘su’ I could not become root either. … Continue reading →

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Update to Enabling vSwitch CDP (vMA 4.1)

Posted on October 7, 2010 by brian.wuchner

In a previous article Enabling vSwitch Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) I discussed enabling CDP on a standard vSwitch using vMA. Today I deployed the vMA 4.1 and started configuring an ESXi 4.1 host — only to find out that vifpinit … Continue reading →

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ESXiBackup Folder Cleanup

Posted on September 21, 2010 by brian.wuchner

In an earlier post Directory partition has not been backed up [DC=virtualcenter,DC=vmware,DC=int] I suggested a method to backup the VMwareVCMSDS ADAM database. As Joern posted in a comment, this solution could fill up your D: drive. The following code should … Continue reading →

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Directory partition has not been backed up [DC=virtualcenter,DC=vmware,DC=int]

Posted on August 15, 2010 by brian.wuchner

With the help of Alan Renouf’s vCheck (Daily Report) script I recently started noticing an error in my Windows event log on a vCenter server. This directory partition has not been backed up since at least the following number of … Continue reading →

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ADAM Instance VMwareVCMSDS index may be corrupt

Posted on August 15, 2010 by brian.wuchner

VMware vSphere vCenter Server installs an Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) [aka Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (ADLDS)] instance called VMwareVCMSDS. I have had several problems with this service — one issue with the contents of the directory (see vCenter … Continue reading →

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