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VMWare ESX3i Cisco CDP protocol L2 overview

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ February 6, 2008 / 2 Comments

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) allows ESX Server 3 administrators to determine which Cisco switch port is connected to a given vSwitch. When CDP is enabled for a particular vSwitch, you can view properties of the Cisco switch (such as device ID, software version, and timeout) from the VI Client. You...

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VMWare ESX3i Monitoring Server Health Status

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ February 6, 2008 / 1 Comment

ESX 3i host server has sensors builtin that allows you to monitor the health of the following host components: CPU processors Memory Fans Temperature Voltage On systems without IPMI, only CPU sensors are available. Storage sensors are available only on systems with an LSI MegaRAID controller installed. If a particular...

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Installing VMWare ESX Server for VMWare Workstation 6 screencast

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ December 10, 2007 / 2 Comments

Youtube screw up my 10 minutes video. This time I encoded the video into a flash format. Check out the video which was based on the tutorial of installing VMWare ESX server into a VMWare Workstation6 guest. Click here to open the file (8mb).

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