http://www.serverchief.com/content Server virtualization, monitoring, management, troubleshooting, administration, mass deployment and beyound!!! Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:11:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you ever wanted to run linux like top command and see most active luns on your NetApp filers? Even if this twisted idea never crossed your mind, this is one of the usefull tools to keep your eye on when managing NetApp filer(s). The Lun Top tool is a client-based utility ... http://www.serverchief.com/content/netapps-lun_top-utility/ I have written a perl script that screen scrapes the vmware patches pages and generates an output that can be used in esx upgrade scripts To view the sample, visit following pages (re-generated every 4 hours): VmWare ESX 3.0.0 - http://www.serverchief.com/esx-updater/feed/vi3_patches_300.txt VmWare ESX 3.0.1 - http://www.serverchief.com/esx-updater/feed/vi3_patches_301.txt VmWare ESX 3.0.2 - http://www.serverchief.com/esx-updater/feed/vi3_patches_302.txt The perl source ... http://www.serverchief.com/content/vmware-patches-screen-scrapper-in-perl/ I written a tiny web app to resolve the external ip. It is similar to what is my IP address site, however, there is no advertisement and other useless information. Can be used during troubleshooting and in various scripts to identify external internet ip address. When do i use it? When you ... http://www.serverchief.com/content/what-is-my-ip-address-query-tool/ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses ... http://www.serverchief.com/content/gnu-gpl-agreement/ First and foremost, thank you for visiting this site. This site has been created to share the knowledge and expertise in various fields of Virtualization, D.R. Design and Implementation, Unix/Linux administration, Clustering, Storage Architecture, etc... In addition, as I encounter common problems, I write various applications to address these issue. Most ... http://www.serverchief.com/content/welcome-to-my-site/ There are many ways to virtualize a linux O.S. This video tutorial will show you how to do a live pull of running Linux O.S. to ESX host. NOTE: Ideally, you should power off your linux server and boot up with Knoppix. However, since this is a single purpose MySQL ... http://www.serverchief.com/content/virtualizing-live-linux-server-to-esx-3x-host/ Project Purpose: CURRENT STATUS: VmWare site changes detected, adjusting the script to work with latest changes, please check back later ESX Updater 3.x project has been created to simplify the patch management of ESX 3.x hosts. It connects to vmware site, downloads and installs various update packages you choose. It is ... http://www.serverchief.com/content/esx-3x-updater-standard-esx-host-edition/ Project Purpose: This project is dedicated to ease the usage and tracking of IP space within your network. It has been specifically written for sys and network admins. Comes with nice web GUI, gives you a general overview of a specific VLAN with many features... Features include: Detailed IP report on specific VLAN IP ... http://www.serverchief.com/content/ip-auditor/ Project purpose: To simplify ESX Updates even further, I'm writting all in one web application with following features: Automatically goes out to VmWare site and looks for new patches If new patches found, downloads it to a local repository Analyzes your currently configured ESX hosts against latest available patches Gives suggestions as to which ... http://www.serverchief.com/content/esx-3x-updater-web-edition/ Project Purpose: CURRENT STATUS: VmWare site changes detected, adjusting the script to work with latest changes, please check back later! ESX Updater 3.x project has been created to simplify the patch management of ESX 3.x hosts. It connects to vmware site and downloads various update packages you choose (critical, general, security or all). It creates tar.gz ... http://www.serverchief.com/content/esx-3x-updater-standard/