Today was like Christmas morning. All the waiting was over, and I downloaded the eval of vSphere 4. I can still recall the smell of the warm plastic DVD that came out of the writer, and the joy I felt holding it in my hands. I popped the disk into an unsuspecting box, and began [...]
We’ll I’m not entirely sure that it “Hates” me. Perhaps that is too strong a word. Trolling around my VI today, I found a host that had it something spinning out of control:
[root@hyp1 root]# top
10:50:35 up 12 days, 1:08, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 1.98, 1.92
306 processes: 297 sleeping, 9 running, 0 zombie, 0 [...]
This will likely not generate as much fanfare as it did for the 3.5 release of ESXi, however I can confirm that it does indeed still work in vSphere ESXi 4. This is the procedure I used to get it up and running on my “Lab” box.
alt-f1 (Note: As pointed out below, you will not [...]
This week has been abnormally busy. That said, there were a few items of note in my RSS reader worth posting here for you:
vSphere 4 Launch (I’ll not cover the launch (or even link it) here. Why? Redundant coverage is redundant.
Virtual-Al Online vMUG – It’s unofficial, but looks like it could turn into something great.
Coffee [...]
I told you it was the big feature didn’t I” While I’m a PowerShell man at heart, there is something to be said, for having a cross platform, potentially hypervisor agnostic scripting engine, that is tied not just into your virtual infrastructure, but also into your management platform.
Take a look at a few of the [...]
They’ve a new release, and I have more invites!
Highlight? Lua Scripting.
While it’s not quite PowerShell, the power it will have considering their hypervisor agnostic (soon!) nature, will be amazing.
I’ve got it installed, and will be pointing it at a VI3 setup soon to capture y’all some good screen shots. The maps feature is slick, [...]
What is a “Step Ticker”
You know, it’s one of those little pedometer things you strap onto your hip and tracks how far you’ve walked. Ok, so it’s not that. At least not within the context of servers & virtualization. So what IS it? It’s a horribly named NTP (network time protocol) concept. Yup. That’s it. [...]
I have to honest. I haven’t given the Tripwire tools the time of day prior. Wether it was because I didn’t have any time, or I felt my own skill at scripting was good enough, I don’t know.
After a run in with a v-motion issue while at Citrix Synergy/Virtualization Congress 2009, and having [...]
This is a big one to try to tackle in a single post, but the question comes up often enough to try. I figure to best answer it, it would help to understand what each does:
VMware HA
What it does: VMware HA will detects host & VM (VM heartbeat, etc) failures. On a failure it will [...]
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First, Meet our newest “Staff” member at ProfessionalVMware. Not sure what to call him yet, but he’s the smallest of the bunch, as you can see from the pictures.
Second, and likely just as important. ProfessionalVMware expanded recently and welcomes “ThePowerShellTalk.com” to our family of sites. ThePowerShellTalk, is the official site for the presentation [...]
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