Airwave Post-Installation Issues On Vmware; Dell Powerconnect W-Airwave - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User Manual

AirWave Post-Installation Issues on VMware

By default, AirWave runs the Linux 'smartd' service for detecting physical disk errors using the S.M.A.R.T.
protocol. However, virtual disks do not support the S.M.A.R.T. protocol, so the AirWave smartd service will fail at
startup.
The service can be disabled by running the following commands at the AirWave command line:
service smartd stop
chkconfig smartd off
The first command stops smartd on the active system while the second prevents the service from starting in the
future.
To install VMware Tools on AirWave, perform these steps:
1. From the VMware vSphere, select the desired VMware instance from the Inventory list.
2. Select Inventory > Virtual Machine > Guest > Install/Upgrade VMwareTools.
3. Run the following commands at the AirWave console:
mkdir /media/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
tar -xvzf /media/cdrom/VMware*tar.gz -C /tmp
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl --default
4. Reboot the virtual machine once the VMware Tools install is complete.
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