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Simulating a more interesting environment with Vyatta and VMware ESXi - pt 3

Background

[consider this fair warning that this post is a bit long]

In the first part of this series I planned out my “enterprise” environment for an Exchange 2003 to 2010 upgrade. In the second part I built the internal router and verified it was working with directly connected subnets. At this point I have something resembling [...]

Simulating a more interesting environment with Vyatta and VMware ESXi - pt 2

In an earlier post I went through the process of coming up with a solution to be able to test an Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 migration using VMs. In order to simulate a multi-site AD environment I wanted to use Vyatta based routers to create my network infrastructure. In this post I’ll actually walk [...]

Simulating a more interesting environment with Vyatta and VMware ESXi

[Part 2 of this series which involves the actual configuration of the Vyatta routers is now up here -crt]

At work we’ve recently made the decision to migrate to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003. While we do have an environment that we can use for some testing of the migration it doesn’t mimic our production environment [...]

Nagios ESX3i Scripts and ESX4i

This is just an update, but the scripts I wrote for use with Nagios and ESX3i seem to work just fine with ESX4i (at least in my home lab environment using Dell Poweredge 2850s).

Simple Neverfail monitoring with Zabbix part 1

Background

This is the first of a couple of posts on how I’ve cobbled together some basic monitoring of Neverfail’s  Neverfail Heartbeat H/A software which is also now the basis for VMWare’s vCenter Server Heartbeat. Since Neverfail seems to consider their command lines privileged information I will only cover how to do some simple monitoring using [...]

Using Vyatta with VMware

[Note: I've started another series of posts using Vyatta in VMware for a more complex environment that starts with this one- crt (2/20/2010)]

After finally getting around to clearing space in the garage and getting an old Dell PowerEdge 2650 I’d acquired up and running with VMware ESXi I started [...]