As expected when the AutoLab was released people wanted to use it, then found issues. This is why I put version 0.5 on it! Erik Bussink has found that the Windows 2008R2 build automation for the Domain Controller and Virtual Center VMs is currently only compatible with the RTM release, it fails with the SP1
-> Continue reading vSphere AutoLab first Bug report
It’s Alastair here, today I am very pleased to release the vSphere 5 AutoLab, a free tool for the VMware community. What is the AutoLab? The AutoLab is a quick easy way to build a vSphere environment for testing and learning using a single desktop or laptop PC and VMware Workstation, Fusion or ESXi. The
-> Continue reading vSphere 5 AutoLab
Tim Gleed will be back on the #vBrownBag again this week to finish up on vSphere VM Storage design as it applies to the VCAP-DCD. For part one, check here. Details Date/Time: 5/3/12 @ 18:00 Sydney, AustraliaRegistration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/505624097
For those who haven’t seen his posts / presentations here before should check them out. VMware’s Nathan Small who works as a Staff Engineer at Global Support Services and specializes in… well, storage! We’ll have him on the 5/2/12 vBrownBag to do what he does best, dive mind-blowingly deep into storage in vSphere environments. Details
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag – Storage Month Encore (Nathan Small)
This came up whilst doing preparation and writing for a forthcoming exam prep book. There was an objective that required changing the location of a VM Swap file. There are two PowerCLI one-liners that can help you here. One for the cluster level, then one for the hosts. PowerCLI – Change the VM Swapfile location
-> Continue reading PowerCLI 101 – Changing the VM Swapfile Location
Hi I am Alastair Cooke. I am very pleased to be joining Cody in blogging here at ProfessionalVMware. Some of you will know me from hosting the APAC edition of the vBrownBag podcasts which have focussed on the VCAP5-DCD certification. You may even have seen my blog at www.demitasse.co.nz I’m a self employed VMware Trainer
-> Continue reading Introducing Alastair
Video Slides Links VMKernel iSCSI issue http://vmtoday.com/2012/02/vsphere-5-networking-bug-affects-software-iscsi/
Video Slides
Video Slides Don’t have the slides for last night yet, however we’ll update once they’re in hand.
This is part one of a few part series on the test I’m going to put the OCP Platform through. This first test will describe how the lab is setup. Next will be some basic “ghetto” load tests. Finally, we’ll throw some VDI at it. The Hardware Compute For compute, we’ll be using the v1.0
-> Continue reading vSphere on Open Compute – Part 1 Lab Setup
In prepping for the vCO book, one of the things I tested out was Linked-Mode vCenters. Once I discovered the vCO plug-in would not support linked-mode vCenters in the way I was expecting, I deleted the VM that was hosting vCenter02… this lead to the following in my vSphere client: vCenter Server not connected What?
-> Continue reading vCenter Server Fell Out of Linked Mode
So, this last weekend I’ve decided that I needed to get a bit more secure and a bit more proactive in how data is handled at ProVMware. I’ve been a DropBox customer for years, and likely will stay that way, as it has some great features. However, for everything else, I’ve now got a private
-> Continue reading Migrating to OxygenCloud
We’ve had Ed on the #vBrownBags a number of times. This time, like the past, we’ll be talking security, with an added twist. Ed is also putting on a hardcore tech conference in Austin, Tx, the vScience Conference. So, expect the #vBrownBag to be a preview of the sort of material, depth, and quality you
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Security w/ @texiwill (4/25/12)
Was segregating out some of my home lab stuff from some of the nested things in the lab and came across this when dropping a VM into the vApp: Basically telling me that this single VM will eat all of the Resource Pool Pie. Not familiar with the resource pool pie? Check out this post
-> Continue reading Resource Pool Pie – The Warning
It’s that time again. Here are some of the interesting happenings of the past week: EVC Mode – http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003212 Virtualization Practice (@texiwill) on what OpenStack is not: http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/openstack-what-it-is-not-15670/ How Rackspace used Continuous Delivery to rebuild the cloud: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-rackspace-re-wrote-the-cloud-with-openstack-continuous-delivery/ VCAP5-DCA Training – http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2012/04/vsphere-5-training-that-will-help.html Sean Crookston & Harley Stagner’s new book: http://www.seancrookston.com/2012/04/17/new-book-optimizing-vsphere-deployments/ vCloud Networking explained – http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2024-vCloud-networking-explained-in-1-slide-and-52-animations.html
-> Continue reading Open Tabs 4/20/12
Once you turn DRS on and set it to fully automatic, unless you have some affinity / anti-affinity rules in place, your VMs will get up and dance around your cluster. In most cases this is fine and dandy. However, occasionally there are times where you will want to know where the VM was, where
-> Continue reading Did My Virtual Machines Dance? – DRS History
Video Slides
VLAN Trunking – http://etherealmind.com/cisco-vtp-transparent-mode-discard-risk-transparent-client-server/ Really Really good vSphere 5 memory management diagram – http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2023-VMware-vSphere-5-Memory-Management-and-Monitoring-diagram.html Make Bigger Clusters – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/04/10/cluster-sizes-vsphere-5-style/ Storage Performance T-Shooting – http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2012/04/storage-performance-and-timeout-issues.html Demystify Hadoop! – http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2012/04/big-ideas-demystifying-hadoop.html CCNA Part 1 – http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=2291 CCNA Part 2 – http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=2297 Infiniband over Ethernet == Fast – http://etherealmind.com/infiniband-ethernet-rocee-better-than-dcb/ Some really cool info on how Instagram handled LOTS of
-> Continue reading Open Tabs 4/12/12
Per Mr Karlson’s site: On Wednesday April 11th, Jake Robinson (@jakerobinson) will present PowerCLI 201 on the vBrownbag, and Josh Atwell (@josh_atwell, AKA “vGinger Admin Extraordinaire“) will be hosting. If you can’t attend this Wednesday at 7PM CDT, make sure to download the podcast as it should be great. Register today! 🙂 Find us on
-> Continue reading vBrownBag – PowerCLI 201 w/ Jake Robinson
The US BrownBags last week had a bit of an open topic round table discussion. We also gave away some copies of the new Cengage title Administering vSphere 5. Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – Open Topic from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.