It is sometimes necessary to cause VMware ESX 3.x to recreate its bootloader. This is generally done by running the following command sequence:
esxcfg-boot -b
esxcfg-boot -p
esxcfg-boot -r
You might find that these commands run indefinitely on your ESX servers if you alias ‘cp’ or ‘mv’ to ‘cp -i’ or ‘mv -i’ respectively in your /root/.bashrc file. The [...]
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Here’s the scenario: You need to move a large number of ESX guest OSs from one datacenter to another. To make things interesting, there isn’t enough bandwidth on the WAN to move the guest OSs on the wire or replicate the data, so it has to be out of band. Also, you’re on a tight [...] |
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