Month: March 2010

ESX 3.5 – Keyboard Issues displaying wrong characters

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I ran into an issue getting an ESX 3.5 server to join a Virtual Center 2.5 server today..

For some reason I couldn’t get it to join my VC server and when I tried to I would get the error bad password or user name. Connecting the VI client straight to the server failed, trying to use the web interface failed, but I could remote into the server via an IP KVM and log on without issue.

What I found was my keyboard map on this individual server was set to UK and not US.

Here is how I resolved this issue.

Logged in to the host as root

cd /etc/sysconfig
vi keyboard
Press esc twice
Press insert to edit
Changed KEYTABLE=”uk″ to KEYTABLE=”us″
Press esc twice
Enter :qw > to save the file and exit
Reboot the ESX server
And now it works like a champ..

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Nasuni does a nice write up on the Phoenix VMUG

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Hey if you get a chance check out the blog below, Andres did a really nice write up about the Phoenix VMUG and their product..

https://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/hello-vmug-phoenix/

I had a chance to watch the Nasuni presentation and they offer are really cool vm appliance that allows for “virtually” unlimited storage for a flat rate price…

When I heard the flat rate price it floored me how cost effective it was…

I currently have a need for some off site storage and we’ll be looking at Nasuni very soon…

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