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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Trouble with your HA config? vCenter (VirtualCenter) giving you all kinds of crap while setting it up? Let’s take a look some things to do when ‘Configure HA’ bunks up. Do you meet the requirements? There are a few things that you need in order to make sure all the bits of HA work. There
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Came across this useful little gem today, its the executable responsible for running, or at least managing the VMware Virtual Center Service. Where is it located? C:Program FilesVMwareInfrastructureVirtualCenter Server>dir vpxd.exe Volume in drive C is C_DRIVE Volume Serial Number is F463-F653 Directory of C:Program FilesVMwareInfrastructureVirtualCenter Server 07/12/2008 04:07 AM 13,557,760 vpxd.exe 1 File(s) 13,557,760 bytes
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Why? Because it’s awesome, that’s why. Below is an example, complete with syntax and screenshots on how to defragment a windows guest using VMware’s VIX. Here is what it looked like before: Here is the command used from the host where VIX is installed: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VIX>vmrun -T esx -h https://vCenter.server.com/sdk – u domain\user -p
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