Woot! We’ve touched on storage before (here) but we have not yet scratched the surface of VDI let alone how it effects storage. More than that, we’ll have some VDI experts from around the community to talk to us. First, the critical details: Critical Details: Date/Time: 6/22 @ 7PM CSTRegister: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/351927521 Speaker Bios: Michael Letschin
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I’m likely late to the party here… the vCO product page now has a new tab: That’s right, a page dedicated to vCO plugins. The only bits missing are the VIX plugin bits from the labs page.
Occasionally I run into a good post from elsewhere (The Art of Suffering, vZen, etc) that has lessons that translate into our world quite well. This time around I was reading a bit on Garr Reynolds’ PresentationZen blog and came across this post. The post while not directly related to IT infrastructure, Garr’s bag is
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No story this time around, just some HBA rescanning love: PowerCLI Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba vCenter Orchestrator In the vCO Client, open “Workflows” & Drill down to “Library > vCenter > Datacenter”: Right click, “Start workflow…”: Finally: “Submit” Summary Questions? Comments? Follow me on Twitter here or drop a line in the comments.
Certainly wasn’t expecting to see this Friday: Congratulations! The session proposal below has been accepted for VMworld 2011.Session ID: VSP1361Session Title: PowerCLI 101Track: Technology and ArchitecturePresenting at: US The Session Glenn Sizemore and I will be presenting some of the fundamentals for managing your vSphere environment in a post service console world. The session will
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Haven’t had time this week to collect a full set of ideas & thoughts into a coherent post, so rather than give you something fully baked, I’ll give you some of the stuff running in my open tabs as well as a Veeam vPower Follow-Up, and not really in that order: vPower Summary So for
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Who’s got the vPower? “SHO-NUFF” Thursday, June 2, 2011, I’ll be doing an in person “BrownBag” in Houston, Tx as part of the Veeam vPower roadshow. Topic PowerCLI 101, session will run about 1h long. If you’ll be in town, I’d be more than happy to have y’all roll out to the session.
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The Video 2011-05-25 ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – Nick Weaver Edition from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links Not too many: http://nickapedia.com/2011/02/16/virtual-selection-cloud-constructs-for-rapid-prototypingtesting/ http://nickapedia.com/?s=uber
So this thing here happened. More importantly, the work I’ve been doing is now public: “Automating Day-to-Day Administration of VMware vSphere 5.x w/ vCenter Orchestrator” This hands-on technical guide to automating vSphere with Orchestrator teaches administrators how to save time and resources by automating their virtual infrastructure. Automation expert Cody Bunch teaches valuable practices and
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It’s that time again… when I put a post out days before the next BrownBag without really having a topic or goal in mind. Like every other time, the nerves get up… will they sense how haphazard and fickle this house of cards is before the show? While I know somewhere deep down, it’ll all
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One post, two parts. Not because they’re short, but because the days were so intense I only had a chance to jot down notes & start to expand on them now. TL;DR – For those at the show, you’ll understand. For those that couldn’t make it… you’ll want to stay tuned to EMC & VMware…
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In lieu of a longer post later (tomorrow morning) I thought it would be worthwhile to drop a note about a few things. First was Paul Maritz’s keynote… There was quite a bit of good info in there: – it costs VMWare .06 per vm per hour to provision a VM. – the hypervisor is
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So this happened. VMware has pulled the ESX Classic binaries from being available as a direct download: While they do provide a download link for ESX classic, it sends a pretty clear message… If you haven’t made migration plans, NOW is the time to do so. Thankfully, they’ve not left folks completely out to dry
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Other than having and on and off bout with some stomach bug yesterday, all and all the show was great. Here are some of the highlights (The post is picture heavy… sorry): TL;DR – I went to some sessions, they were cool, but not as cool as vmotioning a running VM onto the Isilon in
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In case you haven’t heard, the Public Voting for VMworld 2011 sessions is now open, and you can go forth and cast your votes here. My sessions: I am super excited to have had a few sessions make it past the first stage, but none more so than these: Come meet Cody Bunch, author of
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This being my first time rolling into an EMC World I was half expecting to see all of the sessions be well… storage related. However, with this years cloud twist, there are a good number of virtualization sessions as well. Here are the top sessions I’ve got ear marked: EMC PowerPath: Optimizing Path Management for
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Hey… if Luc can do it, so can I, right? Turns out that yes, I can, and it’s quite easy with vCenter Orchestrator also. If you haven’t already, check out these other posts on vCO: Mass Migrations Check for Snapshots Get Started with vCO vCO BrownBag Now, our task at hand, clean up some orphaned
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Oh my… when it comes to tasks that are set and forget, this one was mostly forget. Not so much setting up the ODBC Connection, rather installing the SQL Native Client ODBC Driver for SQL 2008 when SQL is running on a host other than vCenter. Finding the installation The link in the sources below
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First a huge thanks to Glenn & the other authors of the PowerCLI Reference. If you don’t have a copy… you are doing yourself a disservice. Another thanks to those who attended live and continue to make these valuable for everyone. The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – PowerCLI 101 w/ Glenn Sizemore from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
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You know those guys? The ones who wrote that book? No? Well, the book is the VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference and this weeks guest is none other than Glenn Sizemore, one of the authors of said volume. PowerCLI 101 This BrownBag we’re going to spend some time talking to Glenn about the book and then
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