For those of you following along with or VCDX Brown Bag series, we figured you might be interested in the “Lab” architecture used during our discussions. This is in the hopes that y’all will benefit from it, suggest improvements, etc. The Hardware: Surprisingly there isn’t much to it in this case. The lab is running
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Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends… we’re so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside. It’s time again for the next VCDX Brown Bag. This one will focus around the storage requirement of the VMware Enterprise Admin exam. To prep, please pull down and review the Enterprise Admin Blueprint from
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The reason this is a beta is we are testing a new platform for hosting these. I figure so long as we’re testing, might as well make it a live one, no? If you’re up for it, here are the critical details: Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Time: 2:00 PM CST Registration: Here! This session
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In trying to get used to ESXi and it’s console-less nature I’ve been forcing myself to use the vCLI or PowerCLI to do things. Along the way I’ve learned that the vCLI is generally really well though out, if different. Here is an example of this: Setting up a vNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch) using PowerCLI
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Today I was reviewing my post on ESX Crash Dumps and found that well, for vSphere, it is quite broken. How? Well… No /usr/sbin/vmkdump in ESX 4 As referenced in this KB article, vmkdump has been replaced with some additional flags on esxcfg-dumppart: In ESX 4.X, esxcfg-dumppart is now used to extract the logs files.
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It is time to empty my RSS reader and Firefox tabs yet again. Basically this week has been much like drinking from a firehose, so I’ve not had as much time to read. That said, here are some of the posts from this week that I found particularly interesting: vscsiStats Into Excel – Gabes Virtual
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Normally I save press release posts of this sort for virtualization.info. However, I have a special place in my heart for HyTrust. Perhaps it comes from a past life where I flirted with InfoSec or so. HyTrust since the first has been putting off the right vibes, their technology, methodology, engineers, and product seem to
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Today’s post is brought to us by Chris, a member of the VMware community who wields some powerful Louisianan VooDoo magic (and PowerCLI). Chris uses this to show us how to take a csv file in, and use it to attach a VM to a dVS switch as well as adding the VMXNET3 nic to
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If you are reading this in an RSS reader, I strongly encourage you to click through to give them some love. When starting Professional VMware, I never imagined that we’d have/need a sponsor. However, something we are doing must be right, as Train Signal has signed on to help us out with our ongoing “Brown
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Moving along with our series of esxcfg & VCDX related series of posts, we come to esxcfg-vswitch. The example we’ll work with here has us setting up a new virtual switch, adding an uplink NIC, adding a port group with VLAN 393, and changing the MTU. Ready? Here we go: Add the vSwitch: [root@ProfessionalVMware root]#
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As a plethora of my last posts suggest, I am spinning up study towards my VCDX. My first stop on that journey will be with the Enterprise Admin exam. Along the way I hope to share bits that I learn, review, and otherwise enjoy about the process. Today that is figuring out all manner of
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We may have an impromptu call between now and then, but I am in the midst of getting some good things prepared for the next one, like a conference platform that works… mostly. That said, if you have any specific topics you would like covered during the next session, drop a line in the comments
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Seems this is becoming part of a series. Like the last few posts, this one was also produced from objective 1.1 of the VCDX Blueprint, and is part of my exam prep. Task: Manage VMFS file systems using command line tools. Solution: [root@ProfessionalVMware root]# vmkfstools No valid command specified OPTIONS FOR FILE SYSTEMS: vmkfstools -C
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Following up on the interest from our last post, Tom Howarth and I will be running the first of what should become a series of VCDX Enterprise Admin Brown Bag sessions. The topic this week will be the CLI. We’re going to give this a shot with DimDim, and can accept a total of 25
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This came up recently on the VMware Virtualization group on LinkedIn. The question was essentially: “In the event of a host hardware issue, can I VMotion my VMs off the host and send a notification?” The answer is: “Most Certainly!” This can be done by setting up a vSphere vCenter Alarm and corresponding action. Let’s
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When was the last time you found yourself configuring VMware tools on Linux? Did having to incessantly press enter accepting the defaults drive you nuts too? I think I might be the last one to the game on this, but today I was stumbling through configuring VMware tools on a few Linux VMs. Stumbling, over
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As promised, here is the follow-up post from yesterdays VCP4 Brown Bag. First, thanks Y’all for coming, as otherwise a single person conference call is no fun. Honestly, thanks for your participation! Now for the notes: Simon Long’s invaluable VCP4 study notes & practice exams: http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcp-vsphere-upgrade-study-notes/ NFS Datastores (this came up discussing exclusivity for NFS):
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Since the deadline for the VCP4 upgrade has been extended, I figure I’d extend another online study group / exam brown bag. Bring your questions and your lunch (or dinner, or breakfast) and we’ll talk about the VCP exam. Already taken the exam? Well, come on anyways and share your experience and expertise! Details… Date:
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I had been meaning to give HyTrust some more love. After winning the Best of Show & Gold award at VMworld 2009, it is more than worth checking out. (Note: I generally try to shy away from writing “promo” type posts and the like, however I strongly believe in HyTrust, and what they provide in
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I’ve been reluctant to post anything on this thus far, as well… I’m included in the list, and feel honored just being mentioned amongst some of the other names listed there. That said, I feel that with the bits of pure, unadulterated awesome each of the folks listed there contribute to the virtualization community, it
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