There are a few situations you might want to do this, security and least privileged accounts comes to mind, as does auditability. However, you will also need to do this when your SQL server is using Windows Authentication. Otherwise you’ll run into: “There was an error connecting to VMware Update Manager… Database temporarily unavailable or
-> Continue reading [VUM] Configure Update Manager to use a Service Account
So, outside of a few home drama items recently, there has been a new addition from the Open Compute Platform project, and that is a v 1.0 Intel platform. About Open Compute In April 2011, Facebook launched the Open Compute Project (Announcement) with a stated goal of making servers and datacenters more efficient. The 1.0
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In looking around vCO, at least in the default plug-in, there was not a good variety of workflows for configuring hosts. This workflow, will set the NTP server on a host. Schema Not a very creative schema, and for good reason. Also note, it is designed to work on a single host at a time.
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Well, Chrome handles a bit better, however, it still gets boggy after a week or two of having too many tabs open. Without further adieu: Pimp the vCO vApp: http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/pimp-my-vcenter-orchestrator-virtual-appliance.html Host Profiles Deep Dive – http://www.vmworld.com/docs/DOC-4008 IO Analyzer w/ @bacon_is_king – http://gabrielchapman.com/?p=238 I need to reinstall View5 at home. Will be using this – http://www.vtexan.com/category/view5install/
-> Continue reading Open Tabs – Week Ending 3/23/12
I’ll be at the Austin vMUG tomorrow with some free copies of vCO book (hard copy / kindle). If you are in town, stop by and say hello. There are a number of other vMUGs in the works (San Antonio, North Carolina, and any others that’ll have me).
March is storage month for the US vBrownBags. While storage itself can be a huge topic, we’ve lined up some experts to talk about storage in the context of virtualization. vBrownBag Storage Month Line-Up Name Topic Date Ravi Venkat Pt 1 – Host Centric Storage 3/7/12 Hersey Cartwright Datastore Clustering 3/14/12 Gabe Chapman IO Analyzer
-> Continue reading vBrownBag – Storage Month
So, a lot… and I mean a LOT of work goes into producing the content you find in the BrownBags, and well, I’ve not been able to go it alone. In fact, for at least the last 6 months, and maybe the next 6 as well, I’ve had a scheduling conflict with school and have
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That time again… time to close out a metric boat load of tabs. In no particular order: vCO.Next Sneak peak – http://www.vcoportal.de/2012/02/sneak-peek-on-upcoming-vco/ Mike Laverick’s VCP5 experience – http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2012/02/28/passing-vcp5-just/ An evolved “enable FT” PowerCLI function –http://vniklas.djungeln.se/2012/02/25/vmware-vsphere-ft-fault-tolerance-function-for-powercli/ ESX System Analyzer (Pre-ESXi Upgrades, etc) – http://labs.vmware.com/flings/esx-system-analyzer MMM Numa Numa Numa – http://virtualtoddsbigblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/numa-performance-considerations-on.html Some vSphere/ESXi 5 Lab experiences –
-> Continue reading Open Tabs – Week ending 3/2/2012
This week being a bi-week for the BrownBags to give y’all a chance to cram for the fast approaching 29th deadline, I’ve taken the time to put the VCP5 BrownBags into order around the blueprint objectives. Special Thanks again to Damian Karlson for making these happen. VCP-510 Playlist Objective 1https://vimeo.com/34952699 Objective 2https://vimeo.com/35771934 Objective 3https://vimeo.com/35297839 Objective
-> Continue reading VCP5 BrownBag Playlist
Well, honestly I’m not sure if shipping is the right word for an electronic book, but nevertheless, the electronic editions of vCO Book are now shipping. Kindle If you have it, drop a line, or link a picture & tell me what you think.
This week Alastair Cooke will be covering Availability and DR design on the APAC BrownBags. Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/505624097
It’s that time of week again! This time we’re finishing out the VCP5 Blueprint with @btobia. Brian Tobia is a technology consultant at RSA, The Security Division of EMC, with a specific focus on cloud and virtualization security. Previously, Brian has held various systems and network administration roles within VMware environments since the ESX 2.x
-> Continue reading BrownBag – VCP5 Objective 7 with @btobia
I’ve been slacking quite a bit in not having announced this. The BrownBags are now international, with Alastair Cooke hosting these in an APAC friendly timezone. To get the latest on what topics they’ll be covering, check the APAC BrownBag site here. This week they will be covering Network design. Be sure to register here.
Yes, it’s only Tuesday, but I need to get some of these tabs closed if for nothing else but to reclaim the memory. That said, there are some good ones. 24% of IT shops, no performance monitoring – http://reports.informationweek.com/abstract/5/8658/Cloud-Computing/research-2012-state-of-cloud-computing.html vSphere Alarms & PowerCLI (This area needs much more coverage) Setting alarms with PowerCLI http://www.seancrookston.com/2012/02/13/setting-vcenter-alarms-with-powercli/ More
-> Continue reading Open Tabs–Week ending 2/17/2012
Tonight we’ll be having the man, myth, and legend that is David Davis on to cover Objective 5 of the VCP5 blueprint. About David: David Davis is the author of the best-selling VMware vSphere video training library from TrainSignal. He has written hundreds of virtualization articles on the Web, is a vExpert, VCP, VCAP-DCA, and
-> Continue reading BrownBag – VCP5 Objective 5 with David Davis
Time to clean out the open tabs again. Here’s a line-up of what’s going on in my world: Double-Cloud Proxy – http://www.doublecloud.org/doublecloud-proxy/ Like Onyx, but spits out working Java Best of 2011 Security books: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-time-to-name-winner-of-best-book.html Best of 2011 Presentation/Communication books: http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2012/01/10-books-to-help-you-think-create-communicate-better-in-2012.html Per VM Pricing (How much did that VM really cost): http://gabrielchapman.com/?p=159 vCO Multi-Node: http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/2012/01/vco-multi-node-plug-in.html
-> Continue reading Open Tabs Week of 2/11/12
So all of us have Windows boxes in our shops that need to be installed, have some apps dropped on them and managed, even if we don’t really want them. That install process, has gotten easier over time with templates and what not, however, you still need to build that golden image, etc. Well, for
-> Continue reading Ninite.com – The Best Windows Tool You Aren’t Using
You know… it’s that time of week again. The time of week where you will do the most awesome, career advancing, personal enrichment, raise producing thing you do all week. That is, you will come join VMware expert Scott Lowe (twitter / blog) as we cover section 2, vSphere Networking, on the VCP Exam Blueprint.
-> Continue reading BrownBag – VCP5 Section 2 Networking with Scott Lowe
I’ve talked about vMA and Active Directory (AD) integration before, also upgrading and troubleshooting it. This time out, we’re going to talk about doing this on vMA 5.0. I’ll start with the assumption that you’ve deployed vMA already. Attaching vMA 5.0 to Active Directory (AD) Make sure vMA is in DNS Make sure vMA is
-> Continue reading vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) 5.0 – Active Directory Integration