12-09-2010
Openserver 5.0.6 on VMware
Hi all, I'm looking for some friendly advice on running Openserver 5.0.6 on VMware. Does anybody fancy answering a few questions if I post them?
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Well people are reading my post, so I'll try my questions!
I am planning to implement SCO Openserver 5.0.6 on ESXi 4.1.
I have two initial questions. The first is what type of virtual hard drive to use. It would appear to me that it is better to go for IDE (so long as I don't need a virtual hard drive larger than 128GB) because that would avoid any potential problems with SCSI busy errors. Am I correct?
Secondly I need to decide what type of virtual ethernet card to use. The VMware documentation says I must use E1000 "because SCO Open Server 5.0 does not include suitable network drivers." However, the Flexible card works with the SCO updated PNT driver for AMD PCNet-PCI and this combination appears to be much more reliable than using the 5.0.6 eeG driver with E1000. There is a version 5.1.2 of the eeG driver for 5.0.7 which installs and works on 5.0.6 and which does seems to be much more reliable than the version that SCO list for 5.0.6. However, the PNT driver with the Flexible adapter seems to be slightly faster and from a gut feel I think it is still more reliable than eeG/E1000. The thing is, I don't really want to do an installation which goes against VMware documentation that tells me to use the eeG driver with E1000. I have found a blog entry called "HOWTO SCO P2V in the real life" which starts off by saying use Intel but then has a note saying Flexible Ethernet works too and "seems to work faster," which would agree with my findings. Can anybody help me with my decision? Is anybody using Flexible/PNT with 5.0.6 on VMware in a production environment?
Ps. I would have posted links to the versions I have used, but the forum won't let me post links until I have made 5 posts!
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PMDAVMWARE(1) Performance Co-Pilot PMDAVMWARE(1)
NAME
pmdavmware - VMware performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)
DESCRIPTION
pmdavmware is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from a (possibly remote) VMware virtualisation host.
This implementation uses the VMare Perl API (refer to the online docs at http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit). VIPerl is
a prerequisite for this PMDA, it needs to be installed and configured before attempting to use this agent. It is highly recommended that
you test your VIPerl installation using the demo programs that are shipped with VIPerl, before attempting to use this PMDA.
INSTALLATION
In order to access performance data using the VIPerl API, it is necessary to be able to login to the metrics source. Hence, a valid VMware
server name, user name and pass word are needed by the PMDA. These can be passed in on the command line (via the pmcd.conf file) or via a
vmware.conf file in the PMDA directory.
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware
# [ edit vmware.conf ]
This file should contain three lines, such as:
$server = 'vm.server.net';
$username = 'XXXX';
$password = 'YYYY';
Once this is setup, you can access the names and values for the vmware performance metrics by doing the following as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware
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FILES
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware/vmware.conf
configuration file for the pmdavmware agent
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware/Install
installation script for the pmdavmware agent
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware/Remove
undo installation script for the pmdavmware agent
$PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/vmware.log
default log file for error messages from pmdavmware
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pmcd(1).
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