William Vera, Author at SUSE Communities

May 8, 2014 2:12 pm

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How to know what ESX version is running on your VM

This article describes how to discover the ESX version when we have only access to the VM guest. When troubleshooting issues, I sometimes need to know the ESX version when my VM's are running, but in the classic scenario where we don't have any type of privileges, it is pretty hard to get that information. […]

Categories: Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions, Virtualization

By: William Vera

September 4, 2013 9:37 am

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Compiling the Linux Kernel, the SUSE way

Today Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux Kernel 3.11 "Linux for Workgroups" (is not it funny?). Let's get straight to the point: How to compile the kernel manually, SUSE style!. For this example, I'll use the new kernel 3.11 (obviously) on a SLES11 SP3 server. 1. After all we […]

Categories: Server, Technical Solutions

By: William Vera

April 16, 2013 3:56 pm

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Running "crash" to analyze dump data on SLES11

Crash is a powerful tool that will analyze core dumps after crashing, to help you with troubleshooting or forensics analysis. Coredump files after an incident are stored in: /var/crash/$DATE There is a README file in this path with basic info of the core dump file: sles-beta:/var/crash/2013-03-27-10:32 # cat README.txt Kernel crashdump ---------------- Crash time […]

Tags: Troubleshooting

Categories: Server, Technical Solutions

By: William Vera

April 4, 2013 10:33 am

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Monitoring TCP connections easier and faster in SLES

License: GPLv3 Problem: Parsing <i>netstat</i> output has always been a pain because of the large amount of data that is available. Sometimes I need some information more than others, but I almost always want to quickly see the total number and type of connection I have. Solution: For […]

Tags: Monitoring, TCP

Categories: Free Tools, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions