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  • 1.  Aruba NetEdit 2.0: some notes about VMware VM settings

    Posted Dec 16, 2019 06:01 AM

    Hi, worth to add/share few notes (risky?) about Aruba NetEdit deployment on VMware:

     

    1. Change [*] the Adapter Type "Flexible" [**] to Adapter Type "VMXNET 3".
    2. Install open-vm-tools.
    3. Fix Keyboard layout to suit your needs.
    4. Check/Set Timezone accordingly (sudo timedatectl), pretty sure a default OVA deployment sets America/Los_Angeles as preconfigured timezone.
    5. Verify/Set hostname, /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf contents in order to have the Aruba NetEdit VM properly configured into IT infrastructure (especially if an internal Name Server is used).
    6. Verify NTP (ntpq -p) works properly.

    What do you think?

     

    [*] By deleting the eth0 VM's Network Adapter 1 (Flexible) and then adding a new eth0 (VMXNET 3) <-- this can be done also after first deployment provided that the new Network Adapter will become referenced to eth0 since configured requested network parameters were/are referenced to eth0.

     

    [**] Note that a VMware KB article reports "Flexible: The Flexible network adapter identifies itself as a Vlance adapter when a virtual machine boots, but initializes itself and functions as either a Vlance or a VMXNET adapter, depending on which driver initializes it. With VMware Tools installed, the VMXNET driver changes the Vlance adapter to the higher performance VMXNET adapter." does that mean that without VMware Tools the Vlance/VMXNET adapter change is not going to happen? I hope I'm misunderstanding what was written...if not...the VMXNET 3 adapter change and the Open VMware Tools installation are the way to go...in any case this http://geekafterfive.com/2012/02/02/flexible-adapters-and-the-importance-of-vmware-tools/ worth a read.



  • 2.  RE: Aruba NetEdit 2.0: some notes about VMware VM settings

    Posted Dec 16, 2019 07:50 AM

    open-vm-tools is not installed by default ?

     

    the keyboard issue is only for no US/UK people ;-) (Add the command on your guide for change keyboard !)



  • 3.  RE: Aruba NetEdit 2.0: some notes about VMware VM settings

    Posted Dec 16, 2019 09:39 AM
    @alagoutte wrote: open-vm-tools is not installed by default ?

    No, it isn't.

     

    Through apt (check with sudo apt list open-vm-tools and install with sudo apt install open-vm-tools) the open-vm-tools (2:10.1.5-5055683-4+deb9u2) stable package was installed along with some additional required dependencies:

     

    Start-Date: 2019-12-13  02:58:41
Commandline: apt install dnsutils
Requested-By: neadmin (1000)
Install: dnsutils:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u5)
End-Date: 2019-12-13  02:58:45

Start-Date: 2019-12-13  04:45:24
Commandline: apt install open-vm-tools
Requested-By: neadmin (1000)
Install: fuse:amd64 (2.9.7-1+deb9u2, automatic), open-vm-tools:amd64 (2:10.1.5-5055683-4+deb9u2), zerofree:amd64 (1.0.4-1, automatic), libxerces-c3.1:amd64 (3.1.4+debian-2+deb9u1, automatic), libmspack0:amd64 (0.5-1+deb9u3, automatic), libxml-security-c17v5:amd64 (1.7.3-4+deb9u1, automatic), ethtool:amd64 (1:4.8-1+b1, automatic), libdumbnet1:amd64 (1.12-7+b1, automatic)
End-Date: 2019-12-13  04:45:31
    @alagoutte wrote:

    open-vm-tools is not installed by default ?

     

    the keyboard issue is only for no US/UK people ;-) (Add the command on your guide for change keyboard !)

    Yeah but, you know, Not(US) = the entire World ;-).

     

    The configuration script seems engineered to ignore those two or three essential additional customizations other than setting IP addressing on eth0 (the hostname part would be better developed IMHO)...anyway, as written on my other thread, a good sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration followed by sudo service keyboard-setup restart or by sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change will do the trick, verify Keyboard layout settings with a cat /etc/default/keyboard.