http://www.sonoracomm.com/support/19-inet-support/233-vyatta-cable

Masquerade Natting;

set service nat rule 10 source address 192.168.77.0/24
set service nat rule 10 outbound-interface eth0
set service nat rule 10 type masquerade

set service nat rule 20 source address 10.200.88.0/24
set service nat rule 20 outbound-interface eth0
set service nat rule 20 type masquerade

Essentially every thing leaving from these two networks will be natted via the eth0 interface. i.e. they will be using the same IP as eth0 for their requests.

Static Nat Route (pinhole);

set service nat rule 2 inbound-interface eth0
set service nat rule 2 protocol tcp
set service nat rule 2 type destination
set service nat rule 2 description “Web Server1″
set service nat rule 2 destination address 192.168.109.254
set service nat rule 2 destination port 81
set service nat rule 2 inside-address address 10.200.88.45
set service nat rule 2 inside-address port 80

This rule takes everything that hits port 81 on 192.168.109.254 and sends it through to 10.200.88.45 (which is another routeable network) — in this case a directly attached network on eth1.

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To generate and import an SSL certificate on the VDM server:

Note: Certificates are only required for client‐facing systems (that is, standard, replica, or security VDM servers).

1. All the commands related to certificates need to be run in System Context. From a command prompt, run:at <time> (In 24 hour format) /interactive cmd.exeFor example:at 21:45 /interactive cmd.exeThis opens a new command window in System Context.
2. On the VDM or security server, change the directory to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VDM\Server\jre\bin.
3. Run the following command to create a 1024bit self-signed SSL certificate:keytool -genkey -keyalg “RSA” -keystore keys.p12 -storetype pkcs12 -validity 360To generate 2048bit certificate, run the command:keytool -genkey -keyalg “RSA” -keysize 2048 -keystore keys.p12 -storetype pkcs12 -validity 360Note: The keys.p12 file is created in the current directory.
4. Run the following command to create a certificate signing request (CSR):keytool -certreq -keyalg “RSA” -file certificate.csr -keystore keys.p12 -storetype pkcs12 -storepass <secret> , w here <secret> is the keystore passwordNote: The certificate.csr file is created in the same location.
5. Send the CSR file (certificate.csr) to a certificate authority and request a certificate in PKCS7 format.Note: If the certificate authority does not offer PKCS7 as a format, see Exporting into PKCS7 format in this article for information about exporting the certificate data in the appropriate format.
6. Copy the contents of the file into a text editor and save it as certificate.p7. The content appears similar to:—–BEGIN PKCS7—–
   MIIF+AYJKoZIhvcNAQcCoIIF6TCCBeUCAQExADALBgkqhkiG9w0BBwGgggXNMIID
   LDCCApWgAwIBAgIQTpY7DsV1n1HeMGgMjMR2PzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADCBhzEL
   i7coVx71/lCBOlFmx66NyKlZK5mObgvd2dlnsAP+nnStyhVHFIpKy3nsDO4JqrIg
   EhCsdpikSpbtdo18jUubV6z1kQ71CrRQtbi/WtdqxQEEtgZCJO2lPoIWMQA=
   —–END PKCS7—–

   Note: For more information about importing certificates issued by an OpenSSL CA, see Importing certificates issued by an OpenSSL CA (1007390).

7. Run the following command to import certificates issued by CA:keytool -import -keystore keys.p12 -storetype pkcs12 -storepass <secret> -keyalg “RSA” -trustcacerts -file certificate.p7Where <secret> is the keystore password (the password you used when exporting the certificate).
8. To configure the View Connection Server to use the new certificate, place the new certificate and copy the keys.p12 file (the keystore file) in C:\Program Files\VMware\View Manager\Server\sslgateway\conf.
9. Modify or create the following file:C:\ProgramFiles\VMware\View Manager\Server\sslgateway\conf\locked.properties
10. Add the following properties:keyfile=keys.p12
    keypass=<secret>

    Where <secret> is the keystore password (the password you used when exporting the certificate).

11. Restart the View Connection Server service.

Exporting into the PKCS7 format

To export into the PKXS7 format:

1. Open the certificate file.
2. Click Details > Copy to File.
3. Click PKCS7, then select Include Details of Certificate.

   The file is saved with a .P7B extension.

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If your in windows 2008 you can choose the service to start automatically (delayed), and most of the time this will resolve the problem. If you want to do it properly, and in a more clean way…. you’ll need to add SQL as a dependency.

Open regedit and go to the following key;    (find the sevice name that virtual cetner is running under – vpxd in this case)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vpxd

Open and modify the “Depend on Service” Multi-String and append the following (specific to my environment, but Adam for vmware and sqlserver)

MSSQLSERVER
ADAM_VMwareVCMSDS

So my DependOnService Multi-String now reads;

ProtectedStorage
lanmanworkstation
MSSQLSERVER
ADAM_VMwareVCMSDS

Done.

On next reboot the virtual center service will wait for its dependencies to start before it tries to start itself.

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you must run the following to get the actual 32-bit version;

%systemdrive%\Windows\SysWoW64\Odbcad32.exe

Populate this with the details and you should see it in the virtual center installer.

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time vmkfstools -c 4000 /vmfs/volumes/san_vmfs/my_vm/fat_disk.vmdk

Essentially this will initiate the host to create a fat disk in the location above. You will then get a time recorded on how long it takes to execute this command. Then you can use your maths skill to work out the transfer rate…

While this is happening you can open another SSH type esxtop then press “d” and watch the (d)isk throughput on the console. Pressing “v” will show you stats per (v)irtual machine.

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Here is a flp image with the required LSI drivers (Press F6 etc on xp boot)

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1499140#1499140

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Steps to convert from hyper-v guest to vmware guest

• Remove hyper-v integrated services while hyper-v guest is running. (if possible)
• Note down NIC networking details first
• Clean shutdown hyper-v guest
• Use StarWind Converter (free) to convert VHD to “dynamically growing VMware” image and use “IDE” as type. Note “SCSI” does NOT work if you have not got the LSI / BUS drivers in the source image, just use the default options – dynamic vmware and IDE.
• Create VMware guest shell (virtual machine equivalent to hyper-v specs but without the disks) – remove all hard drives, iscsi controller should also disappear.
• Upload the VMDK to same data store as virtual machine and attach to the virtual guest in the right order. They should be detected as “IDE”
• Start new vmware guest
• If you could not remove integrated services (i.e. hot clone), then you MUST disable hyper-v services immediately.
• Install vmware tools – reboot
• Remove hidden NIC and other orphaned devices, and reconfigure network card as per original.
• Windows may need to be re-activated – do this.

Note : converting a machine to use an IDE controller will limit its performance!

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you may want to implement jumbo frames to your iSCSI backend…

Enable jumbo frames on your iSCSI target and switches then complete the following on the ESXi hosts (iSCSI initiators)…

This to list your current switch details and port group names…

esxcfg-vswitch -l

The follownig to allow jumbo frames onto your vswtich (insert your vSwich in following)

esxcfg-vswtich -m 9000 vSwitch0

Then delete and recreate your kernel port groups that you setup for iscsi, my commands looked like this… (repeat for each iscsi kernel port you have)

esxcfg-vmknic -d iSCSI-1

esxcfg-vmknic -i 10.0.0.101 -n 255.255.0.0 -m 9000 iSCSI-1

to confirm you have set the MTU (frame size) correctely, run the following….

esxcfg-vmknic -l

you should see your iSCSI kernel ports with a MTU of 9000 all going well.

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Create two virtual kernel switches, one called “iSCSI-1″ and the other called “iSCSI-2″ (and so on if you have more nics)

Then per kernel portgroup ensure that only one of the nics is active. For the “iSCSI-1″ portgroup configure it to override the virtual switch settings and move nic 0 to active and nic 1 to unused. For the “iSCSI-2″ portgroup configure it to override the virtual switch settings and move nic 1 to active and nic 0 to unused.

Now you have to run some esxcli commands to gel things together…. alt-f1 on the esxi console and type “unsupported” followed by your root password. The following is the command i have to run to get both my portgroups to work together on the iscsi hba….  (you can check your vmk number from the networking config screen)

esxcli swiscsi nic add -n vmk1 -d vmhba33
esxcli swiscsi nic add -n vmk2 -d vmhba33

For each target then change the path selection method to “round-robin”.

Go back to storage adapters and click “rescan”

If you want all future iSCSI targets to automatically use round-robin you must also run the following from commandline…   (this is for our HP Lefthand, your “storage array type” may be different. Its listed under your target details). Basically sets round robin as a default for this type of array. In general you should do this first before presenting any LUNs etc, else you may have to bounce your box.

esxcli nmp satp setdefaultpsp –satp VMW_SATP_DEFAULT_AA –psp VMW_PSP_RR

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