Syslog gone mad after vSphere upgrade vSphere 5.1 update 1
Syslog gone mad I experienced this when I upgraded from vSphere 5.0 update 2 host to vSphere 5.1 update 1 I noticed an issue with the Isassd daemon, after the update manager finished with the upgrade the Isassd starts to write a lot of messages. For just 5 minutes the syslog server received 170k log […]
Release: Veam Backup & Replication 6.5
For those not aware, there has been a new release of the Veam Backup & Replication 6.5. It’s very interesting, the first backup solution for vSphere 5.1 and windows Server 2012 Hyper-3.0. A well brief of the new features can be found on this youtube video, from what I have seen this upgrades are worth […]
PowerCLI in the Cloud
Those who are active with PowerCLI sessions at VMWorld, you may still be having in your mind the mention of a vCloud snapin coming soon. It is going to be the first Powershell snapin that allows administration of your hybrid cloud environment. PowerCLI 5.01 is now available with a new snapin for vCloud Director 1.5. […]
Power combined: PowerCLI and OVFTool
Power combined: Combining two good things creates wonders. In this post I will show how to combine the automation abilities of PowerCLI with OVFTool. You first have to get some old knowledge. Open virtualization format was designed to be a universal packaging system for virtual machines and vApps across any virtualization platform. It’s very useful […]
dvPortgroup Inheritance
Someone may claim the default settings for portgroup inheritance in the dvSwitches, they may be missing in the vSphere client but they still exist and can be set in the API.The real problem was every new dvPortgroup does not have the correct settings for the environment, so you have to manually and set them after […]
VMware trademark guide
VMware trademark guide a very important resource for bloggers, technical writer .VMware employees and partners who have less interest in blogs .the guide is intended to provide guidance regarding the VMware brand names that tend to draw the greatest interest. For one to have an official VMware product the following guide line helps ensure there […]
vShield Edge Version Discovery with PowerCL
It has become clear that when upgrading your vShield manager, the shield edge devices will not be upgrade until you restart them. Sometimes we are caught in a situation where you need to do manual scheduled upgrades , then you are in good luck this little script will assist you keep track of all the […]
vCloud Director Snapshots with PowerCLI
Providers and users running vCloud 5.1 have access to take a single snapshot of your VMs.to be able to have all the fun you want with the snapshots in powerCLI you are going to need what I have in this article today. powerCLI 5.1 currently supports only the vCloud API 1.5 which means there are […]
UPLOADING vmS TO VcLOUD WITH OVFtool
VMware’s OVFtool is a command line tool that allows you to convert VMware Virtual machines to Open virtualization Format (OVF). There have been some update in the latest version that enables the to upload VMs to vCloud Director.it is actually a simple procedure, OVFtool requires a source (VMF or OVF) and a destination (vCloud locator […]
Hacking the vCloud Director browser support warning
I came upon this article where some guy was explaining how to Hacking the vCloud Director to work on other browsers like chrome. So when he ran this: Invoke-RestMethod “https://vcloud.example.com/cloud/org/jake” | Out-File C:usersjakedesktopvcloudindex.html -encoding UTF8 It dumps the HTML from the URL just like wget in linux, he then started changing out all the relative […]
VMware releases vSphere powerCLI 5.5 R2
There was some new release of vSphere PowerCLI 5.5(Build 1649237) wich was shared by Alan Renouf on facebook . The new R2 has the following features per the release notes: Access to the vCenter Server SRM public API (Connect-SRMServer and Disconnect-SRMServer cmdlets) – an exciting addition for sure Support for adding and removing tags and […]
Failed to connect to VMware lookup service
It has come to my attention that many people are having the problem of being unable to connect to the VMware lookup service. This is a problem that can be brought about by a number of reasons, I have come up with a list of some of these causes: 1. Recently upgraded vCenter 5.5.0 Server […]
Five Considerations For Migrating Cloud Workloads
The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only actually be achieved with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management.
Five Reasons Why VMware Virtualization is Better than Microsoft Hyper-V
1. Hyper-V is marketed as free but really isn’t. Yeah it’s $28 bucks but that’s on top of a Windows 2008 License paid in full. This is nowhere near the realm of free, in fact if you take a straight Windows 2008 Standard License which is $999 and add Hyper-V you have a $1027 hypervisor […]
Convert A Xen Virtual Machine To VMware – Step by Step
This article explains how you can convert a Xen guest to a VMware guest. The steps descibed here assume advanced VMware and Xen knowledge. Additional software requirements: qemu VMware Server 1.xx VMware Converter Knoppix LiveCD or the distribution’s first CD Xen -> VMware VM Migration Steps (Kernel Step) The kernel on the VM to be […]
Configuring SNMP Traps for ESXi/ESX 3.5, 4.x, and 5.x
Details To generate virtual machine and environmental traps from ESXi/ESX 3.5, 4.x, and 5.x hosts, you must configure and enable the embedded SNMP agent. You cannot use the Net-SNMP-based agent to generate these traps, although it can receive GET transactions and generate other types of traps.This represents a change in behavior from ESX 3.0.x, in […]
30 VMware vSphere Performance Tips
You most likely chose VMware’s vSphere as your virtualization solution due to it’s reputation as a solid and performant product; however, without proper attention and optimization you will not fully utilize the capabilities of the platform. There’s a multitude of optimizations that can be made to make your vSphere setup perform at optimal levels . This article […]
Working with Alarms and Email Alerts from vSphere – vCenter
As you may already know vCenter comes with a few default alarms such as ESX host connection state and usage alarms.These are useful but only are visible if you are logged into vCenter with VI Client however it can be configured so that you get email alerts when these alerts trigger between a certain status. At […]
VMware shares data on bandwidth, sync times, and RPOs with vSphere Replication
Was very interesting that I have got some data to share with you that comes from usage of Site Recovery Manager with real systems and VMs. I often get asked to provide generic guidance on vSphere Replication and usually answers are hard to quantify as they are so specific to an individual environment. Having success […]
