This is a big one to try to tackle in a single post, but the question comes up often enough to try. I figure to best answer it, it would help to understand what each does: VMware HA What it does: VMware HA will detects host & VM (VM heartbeat, etc) failures. On a failure
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View Full Album First, Meet our newest “Staff” member at ProfessionalVMware. Not sure what to call him yet, but he’s the smallest of the bunch, as you can see from the pictures. Second, and likely just as important. ProfessionalVMware expanded recently and welcomes “ThePowerShellTalk.com” to our family of sites. ThePowerShellTalk, is the official site for
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At some point this evening we’ll become unavailable for about 20 minutes. It seems the server is just as tired as we are after Vegas, and needs a quick break. Rest assured after this 20 minutes, we’ll be well refreshed and ready to go! Picture by: DCvision2006
It was a success, at least I think so, having survived it. We had about 26-28 folks in the room. Low numbers I’m sure because they bumped us from 4p to 3p, and not all of the materials got updated accordingly. Speaking with the door monitor, she confirmed this, and there was at least another
-> Continue reading Virtualization Congress 2009 – Thanks for Coming to My Party
That there is a pic from last nights room check. It doesn’t do the size of the room justice. We’re now polishing up the last few details around the presentation, and cleaning it up a bit. For those that are going to be here we’ll be getting into the nitty gritty of the three major
-> Continue reading Managing VI with PowerShell – Virtualization Congress 2009, It’s Now Real
Sitting at the 2009 Virtualization Congress, I noticed this in my inbox, here is some from the press release: Mountain View, CA (May 5, 2009) – HyTrust, Inc. today took the first major step toward building a vibrant new community, united by a common goal: Virtualization Under Control. Key to delivering on that vision, HyTrust
-> Continue reading HyTrust Releases Community Edition!
it’s here… or almost. We’ll (Pancil and I) will be presenting at the Virtualization Congress on Wednesday at 3pm, at the MGM Grand. Posts will either be plentiful or rather sparse, depending on how much time we get. With the lineup that’s been put together, I’m sure there will be loads and loads of super
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UUIDs are wonderful! Really. They’re just not all that easy to get to, at least not when you need more than a few of them at a time. That is where this script comes in: # get-uuid.ps1 # # Takes either a VMHost or VM object from the pipeline, returns the corresponding UUID. Begin {
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So one of the things that did happen whilst I was away, and that does bear repeating (as it’s not marketing fluff) is the Virtualization Eco Shell Initiative and their beta release landing (Thanks Virtua-al). The goal of the Vizioncore Virtualization EcoShell is to provide a freeware desktop application for novice and expert IT administrators
-> Continue reading The Turtles Are Upon Us – The VESI
Ok, so it was over this weekend, but that is when On-Call started, so getting back on track has been a bit off. Sorry! There has been quite a lot that happened over that week too, vSphere (Cloud OS) and yet another pissing match between Microsoft and VMware. We’ll not get into that however, it’s
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Photo by michelphoto53 I Calm across the “Must-have VMware infrastructure plug-ins” post earlier today and got to thinking what plug-ins I’d recommend. Turns out, that my recommendations would not differ too much, I consider these Must Haves: – Update Manager (included) – Storage VMotion. From Andrew at H9Labs – PowerGUI. This may not be for
-> Continue reading Plug It In, Plug It In! – vCenter Client Plug-ins You Should Be Using
This post started out as a bit of nonsense. A bit of an exploration into what could be done via the API using PowerShell. What better place to start I thought than the MOTD. Who doesn’t love the way VMware greets you… sometimes repeatedly in the same session with it. Then, I got to thinking…
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Happy spring holiday from ProfessionalVMware.
While glancing over at PoSH today (the tiny turtle) I was inspired to do a bit of thinking and talking about using PoSH. Specifically the VI Toolkit, it really wouldn’t be blog worth otherwise would it? What I got thinking on, and what someone on irc clued me into, was storing credentials. Why store credentials?
-> Continue reading PoSH Article of the Week! – Secure Credential Storage
Late Tuesday evening I was troubleshooting an issue with a Mr. Smith from #vmware on Freenode. Yes, really, his name was smith. The issue we were troubleshooting was related to sharing VMDK files, between two VMs running on separate hosts. After pointing Mr. Smith to my “Share and Share Alike” and feverently insisting that it
-> Continue reading Sharing and Snapshots – Another Look at Sharing VMDK Files
HyTrust today came out of quazi-stealth mode and released it’s security virtual appliance. It now comes in 6 new flavors of bacon-like goodness. Ok, so not bacon, but just as awesome! From the press release: The new HyTrust Appliance features the following key benefits: Consistent Control – access and configuration controls are enforced consistently across
-> Continue reading Virtually Secure – HyTrust Launches Virtual Security Appliance
“Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell: TFM” Is now available for pre-order from Sapien In "Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell", you will learn how to perform everything from simple ad-hoc reporting at the command-line ("are any of my virtual machines powered off?") to complex scripts to automate a massive deployment of hundreds of virtual machines.
-> Continue reading It’s Here! It’s HERE! Well, Almost – Pre-Order Hal’s Book
PoSH and JeOS have moved upstairs and into the ProfessionalVMware.com ‘offices’. They also received a major upgrade to their filtration system (hint: they had none prior, and were getting regular water changes). Take a look: View Full Album
After spending an evening last week or so getting VMware Workstation running on OpenSuse 11.1, I found myself in a situation due to hardware failure, that I had to re-install… again. This time I needed the process for getting Workstation running again looked more like: 1. Ensure haldaemon is running 2. Install kernel-default, kernel-source, gcc,
-> Continue reading Updates On Suse 11.1 and VMware Workstation
ProfessionalVMware will be going on a bit of a vacation for the week of April 20-24. Rather than leaving you in the cold however, I figured that this would be a great chance to display some of the best work the community has to offer. That said we’re now accepting guests posts for the week
-> Continue reading We Need Your Help – Guest Posts Needed for the week of April 20 – 24