August, 2010 | Blog Bujarra.com

Free VMware Backups with ghettoVCB

ghettoVCB.sh is one of the few good scripts I know that can help us make copies of our VMware environment for free, This is, we will be able to make backups on both ESX and ESXi servers without a license! We can say that it behaves the same as the traditional VCB, Takes a snapshot of the virtual machine to be copied, It copies the virtual machine's files to a directory and then deletes the snapshot. ghettoVCB is a script that must be run on the VMware ESX server itself(i), we can schedule it to run using 'Cron’ or as in my case I will run it from a remote computer using the utility plink.exe. In addition, ghettoVCB stores backups in an ESX datastore(i), In this document we will see at the end how to make the backup in a Windows folder that we have thanks to NFS.

New VMware vSphere 4.1: Tech Support Mode

From the version 4.1 VMware vSphere, In both VMware ESX and ESXi there is a way to enable the host access mode called Tech Support Mode, We can enable access to the local console from the host itself (Local Tech Support) or enable remote access with SSH (Remote Tech Support), In addition, the good thing is that we can enable SSH access remotely from the VMware client itself.

Using USB Devices on VMware ESX 4.1 or VMware ESXi 4.1

Starting with the new version of VMware ESX 4.1 or VMware ESXi 4.1 it already supports the use of USB devices connected to our hosts and pass the redirection to virtual machines. In this document we will see how to configure it, It is very simple and can be done hot.

Deleting the All Rooms Address Book (All Rooms) in Exchange 2010

During Exchange installation 2010, Some default address books are created, one of them is the so-called “All Rooms” (All Rooms in case you have it in English). It's possible, that when you reorganize your address lists you delete this notebook because you are not going to use it and at this moment is when from the OWA we stop being able to see the address lists with the following error:

Installing Citrix Web Interface on Linux

At last! In this document we will be able to see how to install the Web Interface server 5.3 on a Java server, in this case we will use a new Debian Lenny distribution to which we will install Apache2 and Tomcat6 to be able to run the Citrix Web Interface server, we can therefore save a Windows server with the cost that licensing will entail., Resources… thanks to my great friend Manel who has given me the clues to set it up!!! Started…

Configuring a Client Access Cluster or Array for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

In this document, we look at how to configure high availability on your server with the Client Access role in Exchange 2010, based on an NLB cluster (Network Load Balancing), to avoid any service outage and to be able to accept requests at all times from the client computers.