So this happened. VMware has pulled the ESX Classic binaries from being available as a direct download: While they do provide a download link for ESX classic, it sends a pretty clear message… If you haven’t made migration plans, NOW is the time to do so. Thankfully, they’ve not left folks completely out to dry
-> Continue reading ESX is Dead. Long Live the King.
Other than having and on and off bout with some stomach bug yesterday, all and all the show was great. Here are some of the highlights (The post is picture heavy… sorry): TL;DR – I went to some sessions, they were cool, but not as cool as vmotioning a running VM onto the Isilon in
-> Continue reading EMC World Summary – Day 1
In case you haven’t heard, the Public Voting for VMworld 2011 sessions is now open, and you can go forth and cast your votes here. My sessions: I am super excited to have had a few sessions make it past the first stage, but none more so than these: Come meet Cody Bunch, author of
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This being my first time rolling into an EMC World I was half expecting to see all of the sessions be well… storage related. However, with this years cloud twist, there are a good number of virtualization sessions as well. Here are the top sessions I’ve got ear marked: EMC PowerPath: Optimizing Path Management for
-> Continue reading EMC World Day 0 – Sessions For a Virt Guy
Hey… if Luc can do it, so can I, right? Turns out that yes, I can, and it’s quite easy with vCenter Orchestrator also. If you haven’t already, check out these other posts on vCO: Mass Migrations Check for Snapshots Get Started with vCO vCO BrownBag Now, our task at hand, clean up some orphaned
-> Continue reading Spring Cleaning – Orphaned VM Files with vCO
Oh my… when it comes to tasks that are set and forget, this one was mostly forget. Not so much setting up the ODBC Connection, rather installing the SQL Native Client ODBC Driver for SQL 2008 when SQL is running on a host other than vCenter. Finding the installation The link in the sources below
-> Continue reading Installing the SQL Native Client for vCenter ODBC
First a huge thanks to Glenn & the other authors of the PowerCLI Reference. If you don’t have a copy… you are doing yourself a disservice. Another thanks to those who attended live and continue to make these valuable for everyone. The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – PowerCLI 101 w/ Glenn Sizemore from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
-> Continue reading BrownBag – PowerCLI 101 Video Online
You know those guys? The ones who wrote that book? No? Well, the book is the VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference and this weeks guest is none other than Glenn Sizemore, one of the authors of said volume. PowerCLI 101 This BrownBag we’re going to spend some time talking to Glenn about the book and then
-> Continue reading BrownBag – PowerCLI 101 with Glenn Sizemore
I can’t say this will fix it for everyone, or will even be the cause of your 500 error. Earlier today an epic battle played out between Windows Live Writer and the WordPress install this site sits on. More specifically, I was greeted with a “500 Server Error”. In my server logs I found the
-> Continue reading Windows Live Writer 500 Error & WordPress (Fixed)
Amazon posted my 4 star review of Ed Haletky’s (@Texiwill) updated VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise. Let me start with saying I’ve read the first edition of this book and Ed’s Security book and found both to be excellent. As this book was a second edition, I focused my reading on those updated
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Have you been to a BrownBag? Have you wanted to and haven’t had the time? Do I run them too late, early, on the wrong day? What about the format, to long? short? To little lab, to many words? Content wrong? Not deep enough? Tell me what you think here: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/526243/BrownBag Picture from this guy.
Nostra-Daniel once pontificated that memory is like stacking penguins on an island. Each thing you’d like to remember is a penguin, as you fill the island, you have to choose which penguins end up in the ocean. For me, setting a static IP on Ubuntu was one of those penguins that ended up being fed
-> Continue reading Set a Static IP on Ubuntu
This one isn’t so much a long winded explanation post as the last one. Rather this one highlights the usefulness of vCenter Orchestrator and it’s built in workflows for facilitating the mass migration of virtual resources. The Scenario This guy comes in… and if you’ve seen the movie, you’re hearing it in his voice too:
-> Continue reading vSphere Automation 101 – Mass Migrations (Orchestrator)
I’ll save you posting the entire press release, and just call out the new or upgraded features: Create custom groups of resources, either physical or virtual; Create custom logins (customer views) with either read-only or actionable privileges for these groups; Focus on a subset of infrastructure via a custom login to use and view a
-> Continue reading VMTurbo Upgrades!
Amazon just posted my 5 star review of VMware vSphere Design. The review: I received this book via Kindle loan for 14 days, of which I only needed about 12 to get through it. Mind, that is not because the content was light, far from it. It was because the book did the following things:
-> Continue reading Book Reviews – vSphere Design
The Video: ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – vSphere Security from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links: Ed’s Site – http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/ Ed’s vSphere Security Book Ed on Twitter Summary: First, I seem to have misplaced the chat logs. There were a few good links shared. If y’all still have them handy, please drop them in the comments. As you
-> Continue reading BrownBag Follow-Up vSphere Security with Ed Haletky
This get’s to be the third post in the “vSphere Automation 101” series or so. Not sure I want to call it a series, as that denotes some kind of commitment, and well, as we’ve discussed in prior posts, I’m lazy. Before we get too deep, here are links to the first and second parts
-> Continue reading vSphere Automation 101 – Check for Snapshots
A few of you may have heard the mutterings on Twitter that I was hunting around for some new gear. At first I was going to go down the path that Kendrick Coleman took and build out a white box lab (See his green machines post here). However, as I got into the weeds of
-> Continue reading Home Lab Gear
The TSM in ESXi is a Posix like environment and much of it resembles and behaves much as you would expect the old RHEL based service console to. That said, some of it is very different too. Today, I figured out that while it may not have all of the features I’m used to (screen),
-> Continue reading TIL – ESXi TSM Has Jobs Support
Following up on some of my other TIL posts and a really really bad “vMotion on a stick” experiment, I had to get down and dirty with the ESXi CLI. Without further adieu heres how to List, Start, and Stop VMs from the ESXi CLI (aka TSM): Note: You’ll need to have TSM (ssh) enabled
-> Continue reading TIL – Some ESXi CLI-Fu (Start/Stop/List VMs)