Wednesday, May 21, 2008

WebSphere Express in a VMware guest - Cloning

I am sure that you can save lot of time & efforts if you proceed
installing WAS after the clone.

Khaja.


On May 21, 2:14 am, tim.w...@schwans.com wrote:
> We are getting ready to deploy a new site, using WebSphere Express hosted in a VMware ESX environment. One of the nice features of VMware guests is that one can clone a machine; I'd like to be able to build on instance of my host machine and then clone additional from there.
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> The hosts will be running RHEL v.4 Update 6, WAS Express 6.1 and Apache Web Server. I can clone the first instance, and re-naming the OS is quite simple; here's my question. If I install WAS before the clone, is there a way to reconfigure the install to use the new machine name for the server/cell/etc? Is there a list of files that contain the name I can edit, or an administrative task I can perform? Or am I best off doing the clone before the install? I am working on building the response files for the installation(s) and I could have the necessary files ready and actually probably script the install, but as always, I am looking for the option that will give me the best/quickest results.
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> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tim

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