What happens in 3 days? You know, don’t you? Well, I’m sure you do. That said, here are 3 ways to configure a vSwitch. (Yes there are more ways than this, but alas… one has to stick with the theme.). Using the Virtual Infrastructure Client: Using The VI Toolkit (PowerShell) Before: PowerShell: PS C:\>
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This can be used to enable ‘MSCS’ in a box, in a lab scenario, or any other sort of setup, where more than one VM will require access to the same disk. Careful here though, your file system will need to support this as well. Read on for more.
I will really have to install this soon to give a few examples as to how it all works. Until then, here are some examples from VMware’s VIX Blog team. Use case: Restarting a service on Windows. This one’s really easy so I’ll just show it without explanation. Example 3: Restart a service on
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One of the greatest things about working with/on VMware is the attention they pay to the community that has built up around their products. The community itself becomes a great resource for feedback to the company and for support to new users. Their PowerShell community is no exception to this. Here is a post on
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Hal is amazing, he truly is. As part of this amazing, he brings us a VI Toolkit for Windows script that will install the VM tools without rebooting the VM’s. $cluster = "< >" # Enter the required cluster name $installerArgs = ‘REBOOT="ReallySuppress"’ Get-Cluster -Name $cluster | Get-VM | % { (Get-View $_).UpgradeTools_Task($installerArgs) } Pretty
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Know what’s coming yet? No? Here are some wonderful VMware VIX things you can do while you think on it. Install VMware Tools Set IP Snapshots Reboot VM These are all on one line. Note, the first two work, the second two at the time of this writing report “Error: Unknown error” (ESX in VIX
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With the rest of the VMware blog scene talking about VDI/VDM, and VMware’s new View, why don’t I have a post? Simply because I have no experience in this area of virtualization, and don’t want to steer you in the wrong direction, or provide you with misinformation on the subject. If you would like, however,
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This is taken from Mr. Scott Lowe, and the VMware KB. To fix the problem, users have two options: 1. Disable virtual machine failure monitoring within the VMware HA cluster. 2. Reconfigure the host to change the heartbeat delay. To reconfigure the host to change the heartbeat delay, follow the steps below:
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As a demonstration of the power of VIX, I’ve chosen to show you how to change IP addresses of a Windows VM. You may want to buckle up for this. First, grab the VIX API installable from VMware’s site. In this case we’ll be using the Windows version (because that is the VM I happen
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So this will need further investigation on my part. On the surface it looks really cool: “The VIX API allows development of scripts and programs to automate operations in guest virtual machines.” Read that again. Now process. Automate operations IN the guest VM. Go here for the release notes.
This has been reported by vm/etc and vinternals, but I think it deserves quite a bit more attention. Take a moment to read the posts. The free version of ESXi Update 3 now supports read/write FULL remote admin via the RCLI, and the other api’s. Meaning, that VMware took and made it just that much
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Photo By: HVargas For the same reason that plumbers do really. Think about it. The VMware tools are optimized set of drivers for both ‘virtual’ hardware like the video card & network adaptor, and in ESX/ESXi’s context provide some of the advanced features, like memory ballooning. Tools it a bit more than that, though.
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EMC ControlCenter is Storage Resource Management software that apparently integrates with the VC APIs and ESX CIM APIs to provide end to end insight into your Virtual Infrastructure. From VirtualGeek
While it’s well documented, and all over the place, it still seems to keep coming up. So I’ll say it here again. Current and past versions of ESX do not support USB. Here is VMware’s KB on the matter.
Found this in VMware’s KB 1005278 [root@esx root]# adduser -u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0,1,2,3,4,6,10 root2 [root@esx root]# passwd root2 Changing password for user root2. New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. After spending some time in the adduser man page, I found that while long, that command
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After spending twenty minutes writing an intro for this, I decided to give up. Suffice it to say that there are as many ways to write an intro as there are “Official” VMware Administrator Resources. In fact, Eric Siebert at SearchVMware.com summed up quite a few here. I also came across a communities page that
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Looking at the site stats in Google Analytics, I came across what I had figured for a real oddball search: “vmkpcidivy”, turns out that this is a depreciated command, a left over from an earlier version of the Matrix. [root@esx root]# vmkpcidivy vmkpcidivy is deprecated, it is only provided for compatibility with vmkpcidivy -q vmhba_devs
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This is a tool that I created a while back to assist in sizing needed disk space in a deployment. Straight forward to use, the totals are calculated as follows: VMDK Size + Ram Size * 1.1 + 12Gb = Total Needed. While the VMDK may be obvious, the others are just as important. Ram
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Systems Compatibility Guide Storage Guide for 3.5 Storage Guide for 3.0
Found this over on Run-Virtual.com Interested in knowing if all your physical ESX servers are the same? VMware CPU Host Info will help you find out. The application gathers the important system information from your hosts and puts this in one single overview. The program will tell you if your servers are VT capable and
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