Unresponsive VMware Images

Over the past week I have had two vmware images become unresponsive.  When trying to access the images via the vmware console any action reports: rejecting I/O to offline device A reboot fixes the problem, however for a Linux guy that isn’t exactly acceptable.  Upon digging a little deeper it appears the problem is with […]

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After Clone network configuration

The best part about Virtual Environments is the ability to clone new hosts from old ones.  Most of our infrastructure resides in vmware, so when we clone a system it retains the old Nic settings.  This is how you get the network interface working after cloning the system: vi /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net-rules remove eth0 rename eth1 to […]

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