We had an all-star cast on the call yesterday, including TWO VCDXs #34 himself, Jason Boche and #29 Frank Denneman. There was even a bit of Twitter interaction from Duncan, pointing out that when it comes to HA, there can be only one. Unfortunately, due to the seat of the pants nature this call took,
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The reason this is a beta is we are testing a new platform for hosting these. I figure so long as we’re testing, might as well make it a live one, no? If you’re up for it, here are the critical details: Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Time: 2:00 PM CST Registration: Here! This session
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In trying to get used to ESXi and it’s console-less nature I’ve been forcing myself to use the vCLI or PowerCLI to do things. Along the way I’ve learned that the vCLI is generally really well though out, if different. Here is an example of this: Setting up a vNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch) using PowerCLI
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Today I was reviewing my post on ESX Crash Dumps and found that well, for vSphere, it is quite broken. How? Well… No /usr/sbin/vmkdump in ESX 4 As referenced in this KB article, vmkdump has been replaced with some additional flags on esxcfg-dumppart: In ESX 4.X, esxcfg-dumppart is now used to extract the logs files.
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It is time to empty my RSS reader and Firefox tabs yet again. Basically this week has been much like drinking from a firehose, so I’ve not had as much time to read. That said, here are some of the posts from this week that I found particularly interesting: vscsiStats Into Excel – Gabes Virtual
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Normally I save press release posts of this sort for virtualization.info. However, I have a special place in my heart for HyTrust. Perhaps it comes from a past life where I flirted with InfoSec or so. HyTrust since the first has been putting off the right vibes, their technology, methodology, engineers, and product seem to
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Today’s post is brought to us by Chris, a member of the VMware community who wields some powerful Louisianan VooDoo magic (and PowerCLI). Chris uses this to show us how to take a csv file in, and use it to attach a VM to a dVS switch as well as adding the VMXNET3 nic to
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If you are reading this in an RSS reader, I strongly encourage you to click through to give them some love. When starting Professional VMware, I never imagined that we’d have/need a sponsor. However, something we are doing must be right, as Train Signal has signed on to help us out with our ongoing “Brown
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Moving along with our series of esxcfg & VCDX related series of posts, we come to esxcfg-vswitch. The example we’ll work with here has us setting up a new virtual switch, adding an uplink NIC, adding a port group with VLAN 393, and changing the MTU. Ready? Here we go: Add the vSwitch: [root@ProfessionalVMware root]#
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As a plethora of my last posts suggest, I am spinning up study towards my VCDX. My first stop on that journey will be with the Enterprise Admin exam. Along the way I hope to share bits that I learn, review, and otherwise enjoy about the process. Today that is figuring out all manner of
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We may have an impromptu call between now and then, but I am in the midst of getting some good things prepared for the next one, like a conference platform that works… mostly. That said, if you have any specific topics you would like covered during the next session, drop a line in the comments
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Like the last several posts, this one hails from the storage section of the Enterprise Admin Blueprint. The Enterprise Admin exam is one of the several requirements to becoming a VCDX. As I go down this path, I hope to share with you some of my exam prep in the hope that it will help
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Seems this is becoming part of a series. Like the last few posts, this one was also produced from objective 1.1 of the VCDX Blueprint, and is part of my exam prep. Task: Manage VMFS file systems using command line tools. Solution: [root@ProfessionalVMware root]# vmkfstools No valid command specified OPTIONS FOR FILE SYSTEMS: vmkfstools -C
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Like the last post, this one also hails from objective 1.1 of the VCDX Blueprint, and is part of my exam prep. Task: Configure an NFS Datastore using command line tools. Solution: [root@ProfessionalVMware root]# esxcfg-nas esxcfg-nas <options> [<label>] -a|–add Add a new NASc filesystem to /vmfs volumes. Requires –host and –share options. Use
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This one is taken from the first objective in the VMware Enterprise Admin Exam Blueprint. Specifically from the skills section: – Perform advanced multi-pathing configuration — Configure multi-pathing policy — Configure round-robin behavior using command-line tools After logging into the host via SSH, and getting to root, this can be done with the “esxcfg-mpath” command.
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While this actually requires no special settings, I figure it’s worth noting, if for nothing more than to state that in VMware Fusion 3, ESX 3.5 requires no additional settings to be operational. Basically it works as follows: Download the ESX ISO (vmware.com/download/vi) In VMware Fusion create a new virtual machine, choosing said ISO: The
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Following up on the interest from our last post, Tom Howarth and I will be running the first of what should become a series of VCDX Enterprise Admin Brown Bag sessions. The topic this week will be the CLI. We’re going to give this a shot with DimDim, and can accept a total of 25
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Some folks in the community have expressed an interest in expanding my quazi regular VCP brown bags into some additional brown bags to support those seeking their VCDX, starting with the Enterprise Admin exam. This post then, is to serve two functions: 1) Is there interest? – Basically, If I built it, would y’all come?
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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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Perhaps they’re not new, exactly. They are new to me, however. They’re also good enough that you should be reading them as well! With that said, onto the blogs! VMDEV.info – http://www.vmdev.info/ This is put together by Keshav Attrey, a software dev with VMware. The blog concentrates on the vSphere APIs and automation around virtual
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