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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).

Creating Monitoring Items in Zabbix for Nagios plugins – part 1 (Log data)

One of the things I wanted to check in looking at Zabbix was how hard it would be to use the Nagios plugins I wrote/modified for monitoring ESX 3i in Zabbix.

It turns out that they are usable pretty much as is though there is a minor modification that needs to be [...]