I’m using serveral ESX 3.5 U5  connected to 2 HP ProCurve 3500yl. When I monitor my Equallogic SAN with SAN Headquarters 2.0 there are a lot of TCP Retransmits. Sometimes more than 3%. After some troubleshooting I discovered the TCP Retransmits are caused by the ESX Nic Teaming connected to the HP ProCurve switches. Every ESX server has 2 NICs connected to the iSCSI for VMFS and iSCSI Initiators from the VM’s. Both NICs are...

Download OpenOffice 3.2 in you desired lanquage from http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#tested-full Extract the OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_nl_deb.tar.gz Open Terminal and remove OpenOffice 3.1 completely with this command sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.* Install OpenOffice with this command sudo dpkg -i Download/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_nl.9483/DEBS/*.deb Integrate OpenOffice 3.2 in your desktop sudo dpkg -i...

When using gnome-shell there isn’t any way to clear your recent items (yet). There is a way to do it via CLI. rm ~/.recently-used.xbel rm ~/.recently-used After a few second or opening a random file, your recent items are cleared.

You may never need to know the file names or locations for your virtual machine files. Virtual machine file management is performed by VMware Workstation. If the behind the scenes file structure is not interesting to you, skip this section. A virtual machine typically is stored on the host computer in a set of files, usually in a directory created by Workstation for that specific virtual machine. The key files are listed here by...

While trying to create a snapshot on a host I received an error: An invalid snapshot configuration error occurred. Tech support was good and walked me through the resolution: # vmware-cmd -l [gets a listing of hosts and filesystem paths and combine the host that you are getting the error on with the vmware-cmd command: # vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/45j2fdb8-42a8bc40-dd01-0019bbca5388/host.com/host.com.vmx hassnapshot [if there are no ...