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remove old entries from bigsister

Posted on Mar 26, 2008 in bigsister, Linux, RTFM | 0 comments

After a while running BigSister, you end up with a bunch of old servers and stuff clogging up your otherwise pretty reports. I can never find the right commands in the manual, so I thought that I’d put up the commands here and a link to the relevant page: bigsisterServer:~# bsadmin -d localhost remove deadhost.* bigsisterServer:~# bsadmin disable...

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VMWare failed to create virtual disk: file too large

Posted on Mar 26, 2008 in Linux, RTFM, VMWare | 0 comments

This falls under the heading of RTFM. I was trying to create a disk that was 400Gb in size on a VMWare server and I kept getting the error: [root@esx datastore2]# vmkfstools -c 400g disk1.vmdk Failed to create virtual disk: file too large 1769481 It turns out that this is well documented and I found the solution in the VMWare forums (although it’s...

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