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  Hello

  I have a small question: can deploy IPS traffic rate limiting political to Cisco switch or router?

  As we know, IPS sensor can throttle suspected trafficking instead of block, don't know if IPS can send policy lever swtich cisco gases or the router.

  Thank you

  -Alejin

  You will find the following on what the PPE can do in terms of rate limiting (it also includes what signature and what routers, what must be configured and what not to set up, etc.):

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/security/IPS/7.0/Configuration/Guide/IDM/idm_blocking.html#wp2005501

  The above is on IPS version 7.x.

  Hope that helps.

• Deploy multiple virtual machines on several hosts evenly?

  Hello people!

  I wrote a small script to deploy many virtual machines on several hosts at random.

  But I would rather deploy a virtual machine to each host in a table and then start over again until the number of virtual machines to deploy exhausted.  Distribution of the burden of deployment as evenly as possible.

  Anyone have a suggestion?  Example of nested loops?

  

  PowerShell beginner, here.

  Thank you

  romatlo

  One way to do this is with the modulo operator (%), something like this

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• Auto deploy a Post Install Actions

  I'm trying to find a good solution which will create a VM to a model as a post install activity after a 5.5 ESXi host is created via Auto deploy.  Here's the general idea...

  Bare metal-> ESXi (deployed self)-> create Virtual Machine (s)

  The whole process needs to be automated.  Power on the host, ESXi installed, created virtual machines... done.  I thought that vRealize Automation (VRA) that comes with vCenter might be the way to go, but I don't know how would be VRA called/activated at the end of the auto deploy processes.  Are there other options?

  I was talking with a guy on IRC #vmware and he stressed the vRealize Auto deploy plugin which can be the way to go.  Post the link here in case someone else needs it...

  https://my.VMware.com/en/group/VMware/get-download?downloadGroup=VCO_AUTODEPLOY_PLUGIN_510

• ESXi Homelab on Fujitsu ground Econel 100S 2 - best options?

  Hi all

  I just bought a Fujitsu ground Econel 100S 2 Server and I'll use it as a small house ESXi lab.

  It has a Xeon E3110 (3 GHz, cache 6 MB dual core), 8GB ECC RAM, x 2 250 GB HDD s that can be used in a RAID 0/1, but I hear Internet research that ESXi 5 will not see the drives in RAID, but not sure of the version 6?

  
  

  In any case, what are my best options for this machine? Especially what ESXi version should I use and should I try to get RAID 0 work or it will be better to use only the 2 drives as 2 separate of data warehouses with VM on each (from a performance point of view).

  
  

  I haven't used ESXi 3.5, so any advice with this is greatly appreshiated.

  
  

  Kind regards

  
  

  Jason

  as a laboratory at home, I recommend you to install esxi 6.0.

  for performance reasons, I recommend you to do a raid 0 with two drives for maximum i/o performance.

  If your raid logical drive is not recognized, you can search on the internet for readers... maybe that's the problem why esxi does not see the disk...

  either way I would use iso custom of fujitsu... There are probably several drivers for your hardware

• Tip action does not work when I add a second block of decision

  I'm writing an advanced action 8 Captivate. In response to a question about the points, the user types a number in a text entry area. When they support, the fast action will assess the number. If it is 10, the program should jump to a slide that shows that 10 is the right answer. (When I do just that in a single block of decision, it works.)

  However, the full tip action must assess if the value is higher or lower than 10, then return the user to the question slide and displays an appropriate message. When I add the part in a second decision block, advanced action performs as expected if an incorrect value is entered, but does not work if the correct value is entered. It does is display the question slide once again.

  Here is the code:

  

  Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Should there be an ELSE statement in the first block of decision? I tried to continue, but that did not help.

  -Stuart

  The logic of your advanced action is not correct. All decisions are always evaluated. What is happening here is the following:

  1. First decision check if var is equal to 10; If this is the case, it will change to slide 2
  2. Second decision check if var is greater than 10, if it is accurate, it will move on to slide 1. I guess the capPoints1High is ON slide 1?
  3. BUT here's the logic bug: If If is not greater than 10, which is also the case when it is equal to 10, it will change to slide 1, although already, he jumped to slide 2 first with the first decisioin

  Two possible solutions:

  1. decision of the switch 1 and 2 (one easier)
  2. remove the ELSE part of decision 2 and create a decision 3 to check if var is less than 10

• ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.1 - migration of data base and other issues

  Hello, we have a pretty small environment ESXi 4.1 Enterprise Plus
  with 3 guests. We have a standalone physical SQL server that hosts the database
  and a VM Server 2008 64 bit running vCenter. I wanted to use Server 2008 R2
  for the vCenter, so I intend to install a new VM running this OS. Is it possible
  the new basis of use 4.1 existing vCenter 5.1 (I guess he needs to)
  mise_a_jour/migration) and have 3 4.1 ESXi hosts to vCenter 5.1 report? I have
  then remove the vCenter 4.1 and upgrade the hosts of 4.1 to 5.1. The
  Another option Im contemplating implements the vCenter 5.1 with a new SQL
  database.

  Also there are issues keeping the hosts at 4.1 when using
  vCenter 5.1 for a few weeks?

  Thank you!

  Is it possible to have the new vCenter 5.1 using the existing base of 4.1

  Years: This is not possible, during the upgrade to vCenter Server 4.1 to 5.1, I saw the database schema changes. Schema be compatible freshly installing vCenter server 5.1 and connects to the 4.1 database and do not support.

  A report of hosts ESXi 4.1 3 Center 5.1?

  Years: It is possible, ESXi4.1 works seamlessly with vCenter Server 5.1. Once you upgrade to vCenter server 5.1 level, all the host esx4.1 will connect to improved vCenter Server 5.1

  The other option I'm contemplating implements the vCenter 5.1 with a new SQL database.

  Years: you lose all configurations and need to connect ESX4.1 to the new host Server 5.1 and reconfiguration

  Also is there any problem keeping the hosts to 4.1 using vCenter 5.1 for a few weeks?

  Years: As mentioned above, it works and it is compatible.

• Invalid or corrupted partition table esxi 4.1

  Saludos a todos,

  I have a problem with updated esxi 4.1

  (1) hize los raid desde cero con 1 totally controladora del servidor are only estos wont tenian esx 3.5

  (2) do los HBA 'fibra puertos '.

  (3) comenze the instalacion of esxi 4.1

  Instale esxi 4.1 en unos servidores dell 2950 instalacion comienza normal sin errores despues of the instalacion me of that review the HCG en vmware.com

  y if the small supports esxi 4.1 version

  entonces sale me una opcion reparar y disco y reparar el disco después pulled me this message

  Invalid or corrupted partition table, your server has been put into audit mode you have recreated the partitiond on your disk manually

  depues of esto el Server pide el reboot y el Server inicializa pero normal al puro final al da UN error con letras rojas pero too rapido para despues el Server levanta although tighter is configura y todo normal sin problemas, pero if is reincia el server is pierde config 'tcp/ip', 'dns' etc.

  hecho el proceso instalacion achieve several veces y da el mismo problema

  tambien trate recreear las recording manualmente por consoled pero no lo prevalence

  his las particiones than veo desde estas consoled her

  
  Device boot start end blocks Id system
  /dev/disks/NAA.6001ec90ea001c00156f951906d29aa6p1 5 900 917504 5 extended
  /dev/disks/NAA.6001ec90ea001c00156f951906d29aa6p4 * 1 4 4080 4 FAT16 < 32M
  5 254 255984 6 FAT16 /dev/disks/NAA.6001ec90ea001c00156f951906d29aa6p5
  255 504 255984 6 FAT16 /dev/disks/NAA.6001ec90ea001c00156f951906d29aa6p6
  /dev/disks/NAA.6001ec90ea001c00156f951906d29aa6p7 505 614 fc 112624 VMKcore
  615 900 292848 6 FAT16 /dev/disks/NAA.6001ec90ea001c00156f951906d29aa6p8

  Saludos,

  Hola Warrenjc:

  What controladora disco tiene ese servidor?

  Probaria an instalar ESXi in a nightclub RAID sin unico y falla test TR an instalarlo UN USB en. Of este modo can detectar el fallo viene por controladora Quebec City if no este soportada.

  A greeting.

• Convert the VMs of Vsphere ESXi 4.0

  I need to convert / put several computer images virtual of a cluster of vSphere to ESXi 4.0 stand-alone servers.

  I've been using vCenter Converter and some pictures are really time consuming to convert (to most probably caused by the network...)

  Is there a better way to do it?

  Is there a quick way to do it?

  Any help would be appreciated.  THX!

  There is also another way.

  If you have vCenter Server (you are talking about a vSphere cluster), you can put in the time the ESXi in assessment, add to vCenter and use the migration of vCenter.

  André

• Need ESXi owns hard drives for the installation?

  I downloaded ESXi for assessment and have problems with the installation.

  Try to load it on a Red Hat Ent. Linux v5 server that has a logical drive 1 TB.

  During the first steps of the installation, it is said that if I keep data on this singular logical drive will be lost.

  Does this mean I need to repartition my raid at 2 logical drives and reinstall RedHat with the ESXi before you start?

  Help, please

  Chris

  ESXi is a bare metal installation. It will not coexist with another OS. Once ESXi is installed, you can install Redhat like OS as a virtual machine.

• Using free space on the disk in ESXi 4 USB Installer?

  Hi all

  I've got 16 Stick of 2 GB USB DRIVE that I installed with VMWare ESXi 4.0 and the patch for later, someone has already tried to use the remaining free disk space, or it can not be used at all?

  I'm just curious, and I was wondering if we can optimize.

  Thank you.

  Kind regards

  AWT

  One of the reasons for esxi works well on a USB key is that she is not much written and that he didn't need to do much. Take the 16 GB House and a small for ESXi. Don't risk your production environment.

• How to set the parameters of the ipmi/ILO for feeding from a script management?

  I have an installation script entirely work for our guests esx4, the only thing missing is implemented ipmi/ILO settings.

  I searched and can't find answers for this, anyone know how to do it from a script?

  If it is ESX, so part of your kickstart could generate the thumbprint and download these results on a NFS server including vMA has access to perhaps a list of host names + digital fingerprint. You could write a small script which basically monitors a directory for updates and then automatically add to vCenter once the system is ready to go, you can probably do something similar with ESXi, but it will be more complicated that you have not a real way to "launch" the host. However, you can change the image and put your own scripts such as a python script to extract the footprint and again do the same thing by dumping at the exit of a volume shared including vMA has access to.

  If you are interested in editing script ESXi, take a look at 4 part of Maish's article on how you can configure the ESXi ping to a management host host - http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2010/04/esxi-deployment-solution-beginning.html

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• Distributed Virtual Switch supporting guests with different numbers of natachasery

  Our environment has had the same ESXi host model for some time. Each has interfaces from 2 to 10 GB for the traffic of the virtual machine. We use a virtual switch distributed with 2 uplinks. Now, we stand at a new environment where there are 2 types of hosts. (1) a small workload ESXi host with interfaces of 2 to 10 GB and (2) a large load of work sESXI host with 4 to 10 GB interfaces. They are seperasted in 2 groups (large and small workload workload).

  I had planned to share a Distributed Switch between the 2 groups, so I could move freely between them according to the needs. The only distinction of level of ESXi host is the power of horse and the I/O bandwidth (storage and networks VM will be used will be the same). It dawned on me that the distributed switch is configured with a particular number of uplinks. I'm trying to picture how this will work in this situation? I thought that I create a vSwitch distributed with 4 uplinks and finish by only using 2 of these uplinks when adding a small amount of work ESXi host to it. This is a valid configuration. Should I disable or do something special with the uplinks unused? I have not met this configuration so I wanted some tips on the correct configuration.

  I have validated this configuration as described previously. A dVS with 4 uplinks can take care of the guests with "up to" 4 interfaces. Hosts with only 2 interfaces will have 2 of the 4 links rising dVS associated with natachasery while the other 2 will remain unused. In my case, I decided to use the uplink 1 and 2. Uplinks 3 and 4 are not used with these hosts.

• Confusion about free version and the license.

  I was under the impression that ESXi was offered free with certain usage restrictions, but I downloaded ESXi 4.0 installed on a USB key and starts a server with the USB port. After downloading the client application, he informed me that it was a 60-day trial version.

  We are a SOFTWARE development and one of or customers wish

  deploy our software on a hosted server VM ESX. For testing purposes I have

  hope to launch a server ESXi and assess performance in

  development of the product. As a bonus, I expect to use the virtual machines on the

  Server as a test computers.

  Can someone please clarify what the position with license compliance? Is the free version limited to ESXi 3.5, and exactly what are the limitations of the free version?

  Concerning

  Eugene Gill

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