I wanted to move a embedded Sybase database of a existing ZCM10 installation  to a external (SLES11) server for better performance.

In this example I’m assuming you have already installed a SLES11 server.

Step 1 Installing the Sybase database server

Mount the iso file in (for example) /mnt/iso by giving the command mount -o loop /tmp/ZENworks10_sp3.iso /mnt/iso
Give the command . . . → Read More: Move ZCM10 embedded Sybase database to a external server

Just a quick note for all you guy’s who get this error.

I was trying to install ZCM10.3 on a SLES11 server when I got the error: Install/Disk1/InstData/Linux/VM/install.bin: Input/output error

I didn’t know if this was a error from a bad download or that I tried to install ZCM10.3 on a SLES11 machine. After a quick MD5 check . . . → Read More: Install/Disk1/InstData/Linux/VM/install.bin: Input/output error

Yesterday I was at the Novell Congres in Ede the Netherlands. And I must say it was really nice day with a lot of interesting session. In the morning I followed a session from Ron van Herk about ZENworks Configuration Management 11. A few things about this session were very intresting:

The interface of ZCM11 looks and . . . → Read More: Novellcongres.nl

The Financiel Times reports that Google is replacing all there Windows desktop in there organisation.
The reason for this is the security of Windows (duh!). As you all will know, Google was a victim of a attack of the Chinees country. As of then (januari 2010) the strategy of Google is to replace all there Windows desktop . . . → Read More: Google ditches Windows

When trying to install Tomcat6 on a SLES11 host (for Groupwise Webacces 801HP1) you will get a error like:

error: Failed dependencies:
ecj >= 3.2.2 is needed by tomcat6-lib-6.0.18-17.1.noarch

If you look in Yast you will not find the package needed. Just go to http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/noarch/ and search for ecj by doing a Ctrl+f. Download the file and perform a . . . → Read More: Tomcat6 install on SLES11 failes

Next week for the 9th time the Novellcongres.nl is held in the Netherlands. Normal this congress is in may, but Novell planned Brainshare in the same week so they had to move.

Like last year I’m also giving a session.
The session title is Open Enterprise Server 2 and vSphere best practices. It’s a 2.0 version of the . . . → Read More: Novellcongres.nl

The word was out today on Brainshare. Groupwise 8 public beta is availible.

The major changes are (except bug fixes of course):

For Administrators

Access control for distribution lists for controlling which users can send to a restricted distribution list
Attachment restrictions for specified file types
Limitation on the number of recipients for items

For End Users

Improved WebAccess functionality
Date range and category . . . → Read More: Groupwise 8 sp2 public beta

So this week i’m on brainshare EMEA on Amsterdam. Nice to speak to à lot of people who read my blog. Thanks for the comments! Today day 2 i’m writing this in the bus, on my iPhone so i keep . . . → Read More: Brainshare

After looking up the default username and password for VMware Datarecovery I thought it was time to make a quick note here.

The default username is root and the default password is vmw@re

A note to VMware guy’s: Put it in the . . . → Read More: Default username and password for VMware Datarecovery

On a customer site I had to add multiple lines (CPU mask)to more than 30 virtual machines configuration files (vmx).
Of course you can vi to every vmx file and add the lines, but this consumes a lot of time! So I search for a easier (less time consuming) option.
The method I found is maybe not the . . . → Read More: Quickly add multiple lines to a vmx file