Possibly worth a try. I'm still trying to get the damn KVM fixed for the
spare box. I may have to drag some monitors into the comms room.

Joy.

On 22 September 2010 08:14, Matt Plahtinsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would it be possible to boot to a knoppix cd, or some other live cd
> and copy the vm's off that way to a usb drive?
>
> On 9/21/10, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As are 9 volt batteries.
> >
> >
> >
> > And frozen fence poles.
> >
> >
> >
> > -sc
> >
> >
> >
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:56 AM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: ESXi fun
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Licking the pins on a telecom punch-down block is a blast!
> >
> > "Raper, Jonathan - Eagle" <[email protected]> wrote on 09/21/2010
> > 10:50:41 AM:
> >
> >> Unlicking doors is so much fun. Everyone is doing it. You should try
> > it.
> >>
> >> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> >> Technology Coordinator
> >> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
> >> [email protected]
> >> www.eaglemds.com
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:48 AM
> >> To: NT System Admin Issues
> >> Subject: RE: ESXi fun
> >>
> >> Of course it was easy... it had that spiffy 3D interface where you
> >> fly thru the building to unlick a door or some such.
> >>
> >> I _SWEAR_ that's where CA got an idea for one of its management
> >> nitemares^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H  modules...
> >>
> >> -sc
> >>
> >> From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:21 AM
> >> To: NT System Admin Issues
> >> Subject: Re: ESXi fun
> >>
> >> She took over where the lone sysadmin left off, the guy who ran the
> >> entire dino zoo infrastructure from one workstation (application
> >> development as well "debugging eight million lines of code") with
> >> zero documentation. However all they had to do was reboot the
> >> servers and everything was OK - except for the raptors got out. DR
> >> testing had been missed.
> >> On 21 September 2010 14:08, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just
> >> unix!"  Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...
> >>
> >> James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:
> >>
> >>
> >> > My ESXi education continues....cheers
> >> >
> >> > Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!
> >>
> >> > On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
> >> > ifconfig. You should get something like this:
> >> >
> >> > vswif0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:4E:D4:28
> >> >           inet addr:172.16.15.21  Bcast:172.16.15.255
> > Mask:255.255.255.0
> >> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >> >           RX packets:47793949 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >> >           TX packets:30426544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > carrier:0
> >> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >> >           RX bytes:38276131304 (35.6 GiB)  TX bytes:24724689335
> > (23.0 GiB)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:42 AM
> >> >
> >> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> >> > Subject: Re: ESXi fun
> >> >
> >> > I've spotted another DL360 with a couple of spare drive bays that is
> >> > running ESXi as well. I'm just trying to find the IP address because
> >> > it doesn't appear to be in DNS (there is some serious process
> >> > implementation needing doing at this place).
> >> > On 21 September 2010 13:39, Martin Blackstone
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > I loves me some NetApp!!
> >> >
> >> > Any chance you have a spare server you could slap the disks in?
> >> >
> >> > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:29 AM
> >> >
> >> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> >> > Subject: Re: ESXi fun
> >> >
> >> > Local disks only. No shared storage sucks. Not long now though -
> >> > NetApp is being built as we speak.
> >> > On 21 September 2010 13:25, Martin Blackstone
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > How is your VM storage attached?
> >> > Local disk, NFS, iSCSI, FC?
> >> >
> >> > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:01 AM
> >> >
> >> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> >> > Subject: Re: ESXi fun
> >> >
> >> > Would it see the disk OK even if it hasn't been configured in the HP
> >> > ACU? I'm an ESXi novice and not sure how ESXi actually picks up
> >> logical disks
> >> > On 21 September 2010 05:59, Level Five - List <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> > You know you could just put the drive in a working esxi system
> > andmount the
> >> > datastore and files ...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:55 PM
> >> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> >> > Subject: RE: ESXi fun
> >> >
> >> > True Love!
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:40 PM
> >> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> >> > Subject: Re: ESXi fun
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Damien Solodow
> >> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > >>  There's a big difference between half dead and all dead.  Half
> > dead
> >> > >> is half alive.  With all dead, well, with all dead there's
> > usually
> >> > >> only one thing you can do.
> >> > >
> >> > > Go through his pockets looking for loose change?
> >> >
> >> >  Ding ding ding!   Congratulations!   Johnny, tell him what's he's
> > won...
> >> >
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the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able
rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such
a question."

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