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Manual P2V of Debian Sarge
Now that we at TERENA have a new and shiny setup of VMware VI3, I had to migrate several of our Debian 3.1 Sarge servers. Some of them had custom kernels, because of specific hardware. This...
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mount: special device /var/run does not exist
While P2V-ing an Ubuntu 6.06 server with my warm-cloning P2V method, I ran into a strange problem when booting: The exact text of the error is: mount: special device /var/run does not exist mount:...
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Multiple full VM backups using VCB, rsync, OpenSSH and VSS
The problem Our shiny new VI3 setup works really well, but the backup chapter still needs work. I P2V-ed all our Linux boxes to VM’s, so the existing rsnapshot file level backups still run. So far so...
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Areca releases driver for VMware
Areca has just released a beta driver for use with VMware ESX 3.5 This means that finally all the advantages of the Areca hardware can be used to build VMware systems. I consider the Areca’s one of the...
View ArticleRename VMware Virtual machines on ESX
Ever wanted to rename a virtual machine and found out that the “Rename” option merely renames the “friendly name” in VirtualCenter? You could clone the VM to a new one with the proper name, but that...
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