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Using MSM with VMWare ESX 3.5i U2

  1. Open the maintenance console/shell in ESX3i.
    1. Press ALT+F1.
    2. A shell without any prompt appears.
    3. Type unsupported (all lowercase) and press ENTER.
    4. Typed text is not prompted back.
    5. Enter your password when prompted.
    6. There is no password by default for the shell. If you have set any password from the “yellow” screen (DCUI), use that password.
      You are prompted (#) next.
  2. Perform the following steps to enable ssh for remote copy:
    1. Type the following command:
    2. vi /etc/inetd.conf
    3. Search for ssh in the file.
    4. By default, the line that contains ssh has comments.
    5. Remove the comment by deleting the symbol # in front of the line.
    6. Save the file and exit.
  3. Perform the following steps to restart the inetd daemon for the changes to take effect:
    1. Type the following command to get the pid for inetd:
    2. ps | grep inetd
    3. Type the following command to kill the inetd process:
    4. Kill -9 <inetd pid>
    5. Type the following command to restart the inetd daemon:
    6. #inetd
  4. Type the following command to use scp to copy storelib from a remote machine to the following path:
  5. /lib dir scp <user@ip:path to storelib>/libstorelib.so.2.53 /lib/libstorelib.so
  6. Perform the following steps to restart SFCB and check its status:
    1. Type the following command to restart SFCB:
    2. /etc/init.d/sfcbd restart
    3. Type the following command to check the status of SFCB:
    4. /etc/init.d/sfcbd status

      The updated Storelib library in the /lib directory does not persist across reboots. Each time you restart the VMWare host, you have to follow this procedure to replace the Storelib library.


DB09-000202-02 37857-00 Rev. C  August 2009
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