About thirty years ago in the jungle in South Korea I was spending some time living as a monk. One of the things I learned from these monks, was the ancient art of Dump reading. Yes! That’s right, I can tell the future by reading the finer texture and smell of a dump. Ok, while
-> Continue reading How To Read Dumps – ESX Crash Dumps That Is
Not sure how useful these will be to anyone else, but here is how to get & use Dell’s DSET utility on ESX: First pull the DSET utility from here. sftp (scp, etc) Dell’s DSET utility to your home dir. chmod 777 the DSET util [root]# ls -alh total 24M -rwxrwxrwx 1 bunchc bunchc 24M
-> Continue reading Vendor Utilities – Dell DSET and ESX
Good news for North Carolina Turtles, from thestate.com A House subcommittee approved a bill (H.3121) designed to prevent the mass exportation of our turtles for food or the pet trade. The bill allows no more than 10 of certain species of turtles to be taken from the state by any individual, and no more than
-> Continue reading Sunday Turtle Blogging – North Carolina Bill Preventing Turtle Export
Mike Laverick is doing something cool… he’s starting to slowly release his SRM book, chapter by chapter. Today, was chapter 1 To celebrate the arrival of my first advertiser to RTFM. I would like to begin the process of slowly releasing my SRM book free to download. The SRM book will remain commercially available for
-> Continue reading Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager – Chapter 1 Now Available!
Incase you’ve missed this, project VRC & VMware have released XenApp TS benchmarks with conflicting results, which seems to have the virtualization blogosphere in a tussle. Here is a good summary. Honestly, I think the debate is good, as is having multiple benchmarks around this. Like a election, one should do their own research, and
-> Continue reading And the Pissing Contest Begins!
Avnet Tech Games! This year’s AvNet Tech Games features a VMware Virtualization Challenge: VMware Virtualization Challenge – Student teams will be given three unique physical enterprise computer platform scenarios with the goal of producing a 3-5 year roadmap maximizing their business value while factoring in proper ROI and architectures with consideration for the current virtualization
-> Continue reading VMware Tech Games & GA Southern
Didn’t forget this week. Really I didn’t. I did however disconnect from the ‘tubes on Friday, and not plug back in till this morning at work. Today is some new fishing rules aimed at saving the turtles
Came across this in my RSS reader, and figured it was worth a mention. Project VRC (Virtual Reality Check) provides vendor neutral white papers on how to best configure Xen, Hyper-V, and VMware for different workloads. Do you wonder about virtualization? Are you seeking for the best virtualization platform for your specific environment? Project VRC
-> Continue reading Project VRC!
Mr. Epping’s High Availability “Deepdive” page is definitely worth a read and a book mark. A VMware HA Cluster consists of nodes, primary and secondary nodes. Primary nodes hold cluster settings and all “node states” which are synced between primaries. Secondary nodes send their state info(resource occupation) to the primary nodes Nodes send a
-> Continue reading HA “Deepdive” Page at Yellow-Bricks
First let me explain exactly what I’m talking about. In virtual center, when you select a host, you get a “Summary” page. On this page there are some statistics… A picture perhaps will make this easier: Better? I think so. So first for those resources on top: PS C:\> get-vmhost | get-view | %{ $_.Summary.QuickStats
-> Continue reading Getting Virtual Center “Summary” Stats With the VI Toolkit
It’s official, my submission has been accepted for the Virtualization.info Congress 2009 in Vegas, May 4-7. Be sure to register, and come on down and see me in action. I’ll be presenting: “Automating VI3 using PowerShell”. WOO!
Microsoft has released CTP (Community Technology Preview) 3 of PowerShell 2.0. You can grab it here. After having tossed it on a VM, I found that it now includes a pretty script editor of it’s own: Cute, no? When you create a “WindowsPowerShell\profile.ps1” containing: “add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core” It’ll include all your VI cmdlets too. Nice!
While great, managing events with the the VI Client can be a pain. No search functionality, old events fall off the list, etc, etc. So what is an admin to do? A resourceful admin will have been playing with the VI Toolkit, and would have found the get-vievent cmdlet. Let’s take a look at how
-> Continue reading Managing Your vCenter Events with PowerShell
Using extents gives you flexibility with your volumes and adding extents is a very simple and usually painless process. The ability to dynamically increase your total storage for a single VMFS volume is a feature we all love, but how many of us actually use it? Is it worth the risk? Are you running extents
-> Continue reading To extend or not to extend? That is the question.
I forgotted. Really I did. In the midst of getting the PowerShell post out, I missed the Sunday turtle post. To make up for it, here is a video one of the readers linked: Kirby from Lucasberg on Vimeo.
Because there is an answer for everything and for everything that answer is PowerShell. Sometimes in your Virtual Infrastructure, you will have a need to answer a question or two. Normally these questions are put to you by vCenter: “Did you copy or move this VM?”, “Is today your birthday?”, “Who shot Kennedy?”. For Example:
-> Continue reading Answering VM Questions With PowerShell
In case you didn’t notice, or with some of the random 404s did notice. We’ve more or less completely moved over to the Mosso “Cloud Sites” platform. The 404s were a result of my not doing 100% of the steps I had planned on, but should be mostly resolved by now. Drop me a comment
-> Continue reading My Own Little Spot In The Cloud
Some of you may remember the downtime we had back in December. I know that I do. That got me thinking, and talking, and talking and thinking. Apparently, after talking to Pancil a bit, and him then talking to Rob Lagesse at Mosso. We decided that the best long term home for ProfessionalVMware, was over
-> Continue reading Moving to the Cloud. Cloud Sites By Mosso That Is
Is there an interest out there, from you my readers, in how-to style videos? Similar to If so, around what sort of topics? Let me know in the comments.
Edward Haletky, a regular on VMTN, and the VMTN round table podcasts, is starting his own spinoff, the “Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast” The first show, scheduled for Thursday at 2:30p EST, is going to feature the following topics: Use of Virtualization in a DMZ. Review of security lockdown standards/benchmarks and tools Virtualization Security in
-> Continue reading Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast