Multi-tasking baby. I'm talking about me here not computers. I've been swamped today trying to get VMware ESX 3 going configuring the Juniper SSL VPN box and making sure our over seas users have the proper access to their resources. Basically I am locking them down and forcing them to use the Juniper SSL VPN as their entry point. Yes I'm doing this all at the same time.
VMware ESX 3 has it's own learning curve. I've been rattling my brain just trying to install my first guest OS. I've got the VM's installed that's the easy part. For some reason the VM's won't boot from the CD-ROM. I've tried the ESX host machine and I've tried my workstation. Nadda! I've been beating the boards all morning. I ended up creating an ISO of my Windows 2003 server CD using the dd command on the ESX host.
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/vmimages/myISO.iso bs=32k
What it does exactly I have no clue just yet. I'm joking, it's copying the files from the CD to the location it's the bs=32k that's got me. But this is the learning process anyway. I will be reinstalling once I get a handle on what exactly is happening. Also b/c I am using my only 100GB of my SAN to install all these VM's. Each VM I am giving 10GB. Eventually I will figure out best practice on the installation and how to manage LUNs off the SAN. I did a typical install :p call me a noob I don't care, two VM's with guest OS's installed more to go ;)
And as for the Juniper you can say I had a crash course in configuring that too. Under pressure it's amazing what you can do. Thats if you know what you doing.
All in all the Juniper device is great. So great in fact I ordered it today.
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