…but PowerGUI has the exact same functionality, with the ability to tie in all your other (Exchange, Active Directory, etc) PowerPacks. The VMware PowerPack has now come back under the PowerGUI installation wizard and is part of PowerGUI 2.3 which can be downloaded from the PowerGUI site here. Lest I start in again on how [...]
Pre-migration PowerShell lifesaving tip of the day: get a listing of all your VMs and the datastores they’re living on (’cause we all know your VM names don’t match their storage names, right?) in case you need to re-register your VMs from storage. We’re heading into another datacenter move, and I’ve learned that it’s nice [...]
Well, how’s that for a nice holiday gift? Veeam is offering a free 2-socket license of their products to VMware vExperts, VMware Certified Professionals and VMware Certified Instructors: the awesome Backup & Replication 5 Monitor Plus and Business Reporter If you’re running a home lab, you kind of owe it to yourself to get a [...]
A job or two ago, I worked in an organization that had a definite need for monitoring but a budget that couldn’t keep up with the expansion of the virtual infrastructure we were building out. After searching around for various options, I set up a Zenoss Core server, loaded up some needed Zenpacks, and we [...]
Eric Sloof just posted up a fantastic resource for those in need of vmdk and general VM help: Ulli Hankeln’s Sickbay. Welcome – looks like something is wrong with your virtual machine. Before we go into details … relax … drink a coffee and follow the VM-sickbay-rules 1. DON’T PANIC 2. do not try to [...]
Forbes Guthrie has released another vReference card – this time, updated with juicy 4.1 info. If you work in vSphere and don’t already use one of his incredibly useful previous vReference releases, you owe it to yourself to download the vSphere 4.1 version. Also available are Virtual Infrastructure 3 cards for those of you not [...]
This completely saved my aching head this morning when we had to update the VLAN on some freshly-built ESX hosts: Esxcfg command help Thank you, Eric Siebert!
So this is not really news, but is now big official news: the 4.1 release of vSphere is the last supported version of ESX. VMware is finally dropping the Service Console. Moving forward, ESXi will be the core hypervisor technology at the center of VMware’s virtualization strategy (for now). Can’t say I disagree, especially if [...]
Ran into this error this morning, which of course took down one of our (1000+ VM) vCenter environments: The vCenter Server’s vpxd logs contain entries similar to: An unrecoverable problem has occurred, stopping the VMware VirtualCenter service. Check database connectivity before restarting. Error: Error[VdbODBCError] (-1) “ODBC error: (23000) – [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Violation of PRIMARY [...]
If you haven’t heard about disk alignment and you’re using virtual machines, you owe it to yourself and your most-likely-growing infrastructure to understand what alignment is all about. On a small scale it’s almost unnoticeable. But I can tell you that on a large scale it becomes a major pain for you or your storage [...]