First Cut feature of ESX host 4.0

As I mention in my last note that I am installing vSphare ESX4.0 . Since I am not installing any vSphare CenterI decided to download the agent and use it for the time being to find out what all has been changed.

1, First change I noticed after installing vSphare agent that it allow you to login with current credential.

2. As soon as you login you get nice inventory panel to explore

3. Then I found very interesting thing. You can view logs (click on System Logs as shown above) under /var/log/vmware

4. You can do almost everything using this interface whereas earlier if you bypass virtual center server you have limited feature. One this I found that you have plugin available by Hyper9 and Andrew. Its same Andrew who has created storage vmotion plugin. Hyper9 give you nice little reflection and it is freely available on Hyper9 website. This plugin also work with VC2.5. One thing I also notice about spelling of Plugin, vmware spelled it as plug-in J

This is how your vm’s will look like if you have Hyper9 client installed. If it is windows host it will show MS symbol and if it is Linux it will show Linux symbol

5. They have improved the summary page

6. Console memory has increased from 272MB to 500MB as default.

7. Networking helps you to enable IPV6

8. Storage adapter also list your local ESX CD ROM . Not sure the reason but looks very interesting

9. New interesting feature called Advance setting. Not sure reason for this but looks very interesting

10. Licensing feature also looks very interesting

ESX4.0 install first CUT- Step by Step comparision with previous version

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Now You can post your blogger directly using WORD2007

Hey I found the nice way to post directly to my blog

1. 
   

   Open Microsoft Word 2007 and click the new Office Button then select Publish -> Blog from the menu.
   

2. Step 2
   

   
   

   Click Register Now to register your blogger account.
   

3. Step 3
   

   
   

   Select blogger from the Blog dropdown list.
   

4. Step 4
   

   
   

   Enter your Blog's URL., enter your Blog Username (Make sure to add @gmail.com)and Password.
   

5. Step 5
   

   
   

   Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't do much to protect your username and password during the transmission. Click Yes if you'd like to continue anyway.
   

6. Step 6
   

   That's it! You should receive a confirmation that your registration was successful. Other than the confirmation, you're ready to post. Happy blogging!
   

Not able to open VM using console- connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond

I renamed host which has been migrated from different location but after rename user were not able to connect to virtual machine using VC.
1. Disconnected and removed the host from Virtual Center. Restarted hostd and vpxd service.
2. I also connected the host directly using VC thinking that it might be VC issue but still it did not helped. I was getting error
“error connecting: can not connect to host x.x.x.x: a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.”

I even rebooted host but still did not helped. Some were it was suggested to modify config file for host which worked for me

L ogin to ssh by i.e. putty, and edit the following line : /etc/vmware/config (type #nano /etc/vmware/config)

Add this following line : vmauthd.server.alwaysProxy = “TRUE” at the end of the file.
This resolved the issue

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