As mentioned here, I have been playing around with the “nuke from orbit” bits in vCO for both Virtual Machines & their AD objects. One of the snags I hit was the fact that one of these things was not like the other. That is, the VC:VirtualMachine bits that the vCenter plug-in uses could not
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This week’s BrownBag (the one on 7/6 that is) we will be talking all about storage and virtualization with NetApp’s Julian Cates. “Julian Cates is a 14 year IT pro who has spent the last half of his career at NetApp as a consultant, engineer, and architect. He is currently focused on NetApp storage solutions
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Was catching up on feeds this weekend and noticed on Duncan’s site that vCenter Operations Enterprise had hit 1.0.1, and there is some good stuff in the release itself: User Interface A new VirtualCenter Relationship Widget that displays the performance status of objects in your virtual environment and their relationships. You can click objects to
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This week has me finishing up Chapter 10 or so of the upcoming vCO Book (Amazon pre-order link here). Chapter 10 is the “How to cleanse a VM with fire” or so, and one of the varied bits of clean-up you have to do after deleting a VM is to pop that sucker out of
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vCenter Orchestrator… It’s power is only exceeded by it’s mystery. Or so we thought… We’ve touched on vCO a number of times in the past. So much so that I’m actually writing a book on it (Yes that was a shameless plug…). What follows now was a special request from Maish Saidel-Keesing brought about by
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If you are going to be using Orchestrator… and you should be, you are going to want to pull down and install the VIX plugin from here. Why? I hope you are strapped into your seat, and that seat is bolted to the floor because the awesome fixing to drop will hit with a force
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So, starting July 7, the BrownBag series will gain a European branch on PlanetVM.net run by Tom Howarth. You can find the announcement here. Those of you with long memories will remember that I used to be involved in Cody’s Brownbag series of online training sessions. That is until he moved the the sessions to
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IOPS? No, it’s not where you go to get pancakes. Last night we were joined by two all-stars in VDI sizing and had an awesome audience conversation around VDI and it’s potential impact on storage. What follows is the video and some selected bits from the chat. The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – VDI & Storage
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Woot! We’ve touched on storage before (here) but we have not yet scratched the surface of VDI let alone how it effects storage. More than that, we’ll have some VDI experts from around the community to talk to us. First, the critical details: Critical Details: Date/Time: 6/22 @ 7PM CSTRegister: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/351927521 Speaker Bios: Michael Letschin
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I’m likely late to the party here… the vCO product page now has a new tab: That’s right, a page dedicated to vCO plugins. The only bits missing are the VIX plugin bits from the labs page.
Occasionally I run into a good post from elsewhere (The Art of Suffering, vZen, etc) that has lessons that translate into our world quite well. This time around I was reading a bit on Garr Reynolds’ PresentationZen blog and came across this post. The post while not directly related to IT infrastructure, Garr’s bag is
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No story this time around, just some HBA rescanning love: PowerCLI Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba vCenter Orchestrator In the vCO Client, open “Workflows” & Drill down to “Library > vCenter > Datacenter”: Right click, “Start workflow…”: Finally: “Submit” Summary Questions? Comments? Follow me on Twitter here or drop a line in the comments.
Certainly wasn’t expecting to see this Friday: Congratulations! The session proposal below has been accepted for VMworld 2011.Session ID: VSP1361Session Title: PowerCLI 101Track: Technology and ArchitecturePresenting at: US The Session Glenn Sizemore and I will be presenting some of the fundamentals for managing your vSphere environment in a post service console world. The session will
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Haven’t had time this week to collect a full set of ideas & thoughts into a coherent post, so rather than give you something fully baked, I’ll give you some of the stuff running in my open tabs as well as a Veeam vPower Follow-Up, and not really in that order: vPower Summary So for
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Who’s got the vPower? “SHO-NUFF” Thursday, June 2, 2011, I’ll be doing an in person “BrownBag” in Houston, Tx as part of the Veeam vPower roadshow. Topic PowerCLI 101, session will run about 1h long. If you’ll be in town, I’d be more than happy to have y’all roll out to the session.
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The Video 2011-05-25 ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – Nick Weaver Edition from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links Not too many: http://nickapedia.com/2011/02/16/virtual-selection-cloud-constructs-for-rapid-prototypingtesting/ http://nickapedia.com/?s=uber
So this thing here happened. More importantly, the work I’ve been doing is now public: “Automating Day-to-Day Administration of VMware vSphere 5.x w/ vCenter Orchestrator” This hands-on technical guide to automating vSphere with Orchestrator teaches administrators how to save time and resources by automating their virtual infrastructure. Automation expert Cody Bunch teaches valuable practices and
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It’s that time again… when I put a post out days before the next BrownBag without really having a topic or goal in mind. Like every other time, the nerves get up… will they sense how haphazard and fickle this house of cards is before the show? While I know somewhere deep down, it’ll all
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One post, two parts. Not because they’re short, but because the days were so intense I only had a chance to jot down notes & start to expand on them now. TL;DR – For those at the show, you’ll understand. For those that couldn’t make it… you’ll want to stay tuned to EMC & VMware…
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In lieu of a longer post later (tomorrow morning) I thought it would be worthwhile to drop a note about a few things. First was Paul Maritz’s keynote… There was quite a bit of good info in there: – it costs VMWare .06 per vm per hour to provision a VM. – the hypervisor is
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