Lesson learned while trouble shooting PSOD.

I was working with VMware support and was not able to generate vm-support log. It use to hang after creating folder but not able to tar it.

1. To delete folder and nested folder within without confirmation use

rm – rf

2. Under /root/old_cores you will find dumps created for PSOD , which is required for analysis

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3987551 Nov 5 2008 vmkernel-zdump-110508.02.35.1

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16883365 Feb 18 13:13 vmkernel-zdump-021810.13.13.1

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Feb 19 12:23 vmkernel-log.1

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Feb 23 02:17 vmkernel-log.2

3. less /proc/cpuinfo

4. To read vmkernel-zdump-110508.02.35.1

vmkdump -l vmkernel-zdump-021810.13.13.1. This create file

created file vmkernel-log.4

Log wrapped

The log is like this

less –Ri vmkernel-log.4

5. dmidecode|less is the other command to manage the information

6. Very informative KB

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005184

Working with Blade2:How to use VC Flex-10 with vmotion

I wanted to use vmotion using virtual connect by selecting “Private  Network”. We planned to use VC switch itself for the vmotion and not going beyond. But looks like it we can not achieve it and we have to use traditional way of VLAN tagging . I will talk about how to use VST in my next blog.

Working with Blade-1:Changing name of the Enclosure and Rack Name

Changing name of the Enclosure and Rack Name:

1. Login to Onboard administrator with user name and password

2. Go to Enclosure Information – Information

Is Google gmail running VMware virtual machine ?

Yes I am back after a long time and the obvious reason. I wanted to share something , I was browsing my gmail and guess what happened. Google was running on VMware virtual machine . You don’t believe it ? See below ..

I lost My Dear Friend on 8th Jan

On 8^th of Jan 2010 at 8AM in the morning I got a call from my friend and conversation goes like this

Vinod: Hey Vikash I am Vasu friend do you remember?

Vikash : Of course I do.

Vinod : I have some bad news to share… Vasu is no more ?

Vikash: Hey are you serious ? Tell me you are joking?

Vinod: No it happened early morning.

In this tragic accident we lost three friend and 2 were injured.

We had spend good time of ours together but now it end something like this

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysore/3-Bangaloreans-killed-in-road-accident/articleshow/5425202.cms.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. GOD will  provide all the helping hand to your family and will give them strength to overcome this tragic moment.

This was the last conversation happened with me over GTALK and I missed calling him over 9902622777