As I may have mentioned before VMWare Data Recovery is not my favorite backup solution. I'm pleased to report that VDR2.0 is a LOT better than 1.x ever was. Since upgrading, my backups haven't failed once. And it even has a built-in email reporting system.
Unfortunately, this mail… Read more
VMWare Data Recovery is crap:
Starting with ESX 3.0, the ESX Server by default no longer allows root login over ssh. How to 'fix' this?
Warning: ssh root access isn't disabled (just :P ) to annoy to. It's to protect you. Before enabling ssh root access, make sure nobody you don't trust can connect to… Read more
If you surf to http://[vdr-host]:5480 you will be asked for a password.
user: root
password: vmw@re
Not very secure. Better make sure the VDR is firewalled.
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I already covered how to run VMWare Remote Console outside the browser. But the latest Firefox update broke more. It appears that Firefox is no longer connecting to SSL2 websites anymore.
The problem accessing the console is that FF 3.6 now has SSL2 disabled by default. Open about:config… Read more
Since I updated to Firefox 3.6, I have not been able to run the vmware remote console plugin anymore. Running Linux, this is a pretty important program, as there is no vSphere client for Linux.
The first time I tried to access the VMWare ESX 4 web client, I got this 503 Service unavailable error, which made me think I broke something. But on the second install, I got the exact same message.
While this is not important for most Windows users, as a Linux… Read more
While browsing through the ESX 4.0 screens, I stumbled on the firewall option to enable or disable access to a VNC server. That was reason for me lookup a way to use this VNC server.
It appears that ESX 4.0 has a built-in VNC Server which you can use to manage… Read more
