Moto Shirts

Hey, I just came up with idea of making t-shirt. Most of the design will relate to Motorcycle as I love riding.

At first I thought of making them to wear it myself, but if anyone wants the same design I'm wearing, you could order at: Here

I also created facebook page which I'll try to do the new design and update to this page frequently

Here is the facebook page: moto shirts

Thanks!!

Life as a Biker

Hola !!

I've been gone from this blog really really long. Since I got my first bike, KTM Duke 200, which is perfect bike for my city, here in Bangkok Thailand. The worst town of traffics, and heat.

Riding with duke is actually fun but whenever I gone to trip with my friends, 650cc ++, it's kinda boring. They gone too fast, really fast, like 160kmph and I could only go with 120kmph... that means I'm always reach the destination in last place. But, nevermind that, sometime there are nice people that staying behind me just to make sure I don't get lost in the way. And.. the best part of being Duke is that when there are traffics, you are the fastest bike among them!! hahaha

Few days ago, I've been to Pattaya, Cholburi with my friends (Mostly CBR1000). The road was really bad in Pattaya. They are constructing new road and the traffic was bad, also the heat in the city almost killed me. I think if you plan to have a trip in Pattaya, you may need to reconsider your plan, maybe go to Chantaburi instead, I guess the road is better.

Here's my bike, The duke200, everyone gives me new nickname as Duke 1290cc because when there are traffics, I'm always the first place.

Nested KVM in ESXi5.5

Since I tested ESXi 5.5 for awhile, I wanted to learn something new like KVM-QEMU (which i heard they have best performance and less overhead) So, I installed them inside ubuntu guest OS, but before doing that, ESXi and guest needed to be configure to run KVM.

Here are the pre-step I took
1. Go to your guest and upgrade hardware version to at least 9 (Well, It's on ESXi 5.5 so I upgraded my guest's hardware version to 10.
2. Since hardware version 10 not allow you to edit the setting with vSphere Client (that's bad), you need vSphere web client to do so.
3. Before edit guest's configuration, ssh to your ESXi host and add this line to /etc/vmware/config

vhv.enable = "TRUE"

4. Edit the guest's setting with vSphere web client, go to "Virtual Hardware" > under CPU option

5. After all this done, check the kvm compatible by install cpu-checker inside ubuntu

#sudo apt-get install cpu-checker

#sudo /usr/sbin/kvm-ok

If there's an output saying something like KVM acceleration can be used, then we're good to go.

When life gives you lemon...

As for last week, I've been to Phuket for my holiday. It was awesome! The sand, the sun and the sea, I can still feel the breeze of the fresh air along with the sound of the ocean. I haven't been there before and I admit it took my breath away when I finally arrived at "Tachi Island" (This island is in Phang Nga province)

 

 Tachai Island

It was so peaceful... I wish anyone would come here once in a lifetime and enjoy the moment like I had there...

Install/Update drivers on esxi 5.1

Well, I've been update many drivers lately. Not sure why after we updated the esxi 5.1 build patch from 7xxxxx to 1xxxxxx version, some of the drivers remain the same. Anyway, manual update is the best solution for some system that use variety of hardware's components.

Usually, you need to transfer a driver to the host first. For me, I'd unzip the downloaded file first (to get xxx-offlinebundle.zip) and then just throw everything inside the decompressed folder to the host.

The command to install/update the driver.
#esxcli software vib install --depot=/path/to/offlinebundle.zip
or you can use
#esxcli software vib update --depot=/path/to/offlinebundle.zip

To make sure the driver installed successfully, please reboot the host and check with this command.
#esxcli software vib list |grep <The driver's name>

To remove the driver
#esxcli software vib remove --vibname=<name of your driver, you can find with the previous command>

Don't forget to reboot the server every time you make a change to the driver.
And please enter maintenance mode before taking any action.

Moving ESX host from 4.1 cluster to 5.1 cluster with EVC enabled.

Because we have an updated plan for our entire virtual system (From 4.1 to 5.1) I created new vCenter and Clusters enable with the same version of EVC. If you need to move the hosts without downtime, you need to do these step carefully.

1. Make sure both cluster (4.1 and 5.1) have the same version of EVC. Just created a new empty cluster within vCenter 5.1 and enable EVC feature.
2. Remove hosts from old cluster.
3. Add the hosts to vCenter 5.1. Under Data Center not the cluster
4. Drag the hosts into your cluster.

That's it !
Seems easy, but if you have difference version of EVC, you might need to follow the step from KB which may requires downtime if you don't have enough resource to hold your virtual machines.

Trying to come back

I don't know why I left this blog neglected for years. Maybe there were a lot of works to be done and It surprisingly increases my knowledge from time to time. Since I graduated from my college, I've been working with MFEC and I met a lot of people that taught me a lot of thing.

Anyway, I'll try to write down things I knew in here once again. Just to be sure, I must tell you that my English has been weakening. There might be something I cannot explain clearly as I could earlier. haha