Linux base image on ESXi server?

2011-11-01 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi All I'm stuck on creating a base image (Linux) for newly deployed Apache VCL system and looking for help... This is the closes I got so far to a working system. I'm using ESXi 4.1 (60 days evaluation), ssh is enabled, ESXi server name is esxiServer01, added to the host file on VCL management se

Re: Linux base image on ESXi server?

2011-11-02 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hello Got this link from one of the posts on this elist - https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/vcl-bootcamp/. I hope it helps me understand the VCL better... Can you recommend anything else to read about Apache VCL, besides https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/ ? Thanks. On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:22 PM, D

Re: Linux base image on ESXi server?

2011-11-02 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi I got some progress on this issue. I tried to run vmware-cmd from vcl-server and got the same error - Server version unavailable at , which could mean SSL certificate is missing. Then found this post http://communities.vmware.com/message/1347703 and added these two lines to /usr/local/vcl/lib/

Re: Linux base image on ESXi server?

2011-11-03 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi After some progress yesterday I still got an error while creating an image. The error was: ... 2011-11-02 13:40:38|6392|14:3|image|vSphere_SDK.pm:_get_file_info(2005)|searching for matching file paths: base directory path: '[datastore1] vmwarelinux-238-v0', search pattern: 'vmwarelinux-238-v0.

Re: Linux base image on ESXi server?

2011-11-03 Thread Aaron Coburn
Dmitri, If you go to the 'Computer Utilities' screen under manage computers, you will be able to change the computer's state. It sounds like you are trying to modify the state from the 'Edit Computer Information' page, which is not where that should be done. Aaron -- Aaron Coburn Systems Ad

Re: Linux base image on ESXi server?

2011-11-03 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dmitri, Aaron is correct that you need to do it under Computer Utilities. However, it is okay to change the state under Edit Computer Information. There just happens to be a bug in 2.2.1 that keeps you from being able to change the state for virtu