Category Archives: Virtual Center

Listing DRS VMotion info from VC database

By A. Mikkelsen | June 25, 2008

Ever wanted to see how many DRS VMotion your ESX enviroment is generating? Using the following query you can extract the requried information from the VC database. SELECT vpx_event.event_type, vpx_event.vm_name, vpx_event.create_time from vpx_event where event_type like â€˜%migrate%â€™ (Thanks to: Dave.Mishchenko http://communities.vmware.com/message/969563) Also see http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=69 for an idear to what you can do with the information… Read More »

Troubleshooting VMware snapshots

By A. Mikkelsen | May 21, 2008

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Eric Siebert has writen a very good and explaining guide on how to troubleshoot snapshots on ESX 3.x. Virtualization administrators can use snapshots on VMware ESX to travel back in time and figure out what went wrong with their virtual machines (VMs). But what do you do when your snapshots start acting funny? In this… Read More »

Upgrading to ESX 3.5.x and VC 2.5.x – Read this guide

By A. Mikkelsen | May 15, 2008

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Looking for a guide to upgrade your VMware ESX enviroment to ESX 3.5 and VC 2.5, then this guide from RTFM Education is a must read. http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=482

Quick rename of VM

By A. Mikkelsen | April 11, 2008

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Duncan over at YelloBricks.com posted a nice easy howto on renaming a VM from within VC and from the service console. There are a couple of ways to rename a Virtual Machine, but there are two in my opinion that stand out: Shutdown the VM Rename the VM in VirtualCenter Migrate the VM and move… Read More »

The ultimate plugin to VC 2.5 – SVmotion

By A. Mikkelsen | April 10, 2008

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The people over at Lostcrations have created the first known third party plugin to VC 2.5. It enables you to SVmotion your VM’s VMDK’s between different storage locations Take a look at it http://www.lostcreations.com/code/wiki/vmware/viplugins/svmotion

vRanger script

By A. Mikkelsen | February 14, 2008

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At work we use vRanger to take DR snapshots of all our VM’s (more than 370). We decided that we would only snapshot drive 0 and use a TSM client to backup tha data in each VM and that the snapshots were only to be taken outside working hours. These choices gave us some problems… Read More »

A easy way to document and import VC Roles and Permissions

By A. Mikkelsen | January 7, 2008

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RenÃ© vd LindenÂ at www.renevdlinden.nl has released a excel sheet that can be used to document and update roles and permissions in VC. It look very easy and straight forward. http://www.renevdlinden.nl/wordpress/2008/01/04/vmware-vc-roles-permissions/ A. Mikkelsen

The power of VIPerlToolkit

By A. Mikkelsen | June 26, 2008

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Over the past 2 weeks i have been playing around with the VIperlToolkit and discovered hwo easy and powerfull it is. Some of the scripts i have created is avaiable for download in the Download section of this site. I first came accross the VIPerlToolkit about 8 months ago when looking through www.run-virtual.com. I got… Read More »

What features can we expect to see in the next release of ESX VI (3.1.0)

By A. Mikkelsen | August 13, 2007

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The people at www.virtualization.info have put together a list of the new features in ESX 3.1.0. http://www.virtualization.info/2007/08/vmware-esx-server-31-virtualcenter-21.html The only thing now is when will it be released. A. Mikkelsen

Cool add-on to Virtual Center 2.x from Run-virtual.com

By A. Mikkelsen | June 21, 2007

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Someone informed me on thisÂ very usefullÂ add-on for Virtual Center 2.x. VCplusÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â – http://www.run-virtual.com/?page_id=184 Haven’t tried it myself yet, but i will during next week. I think that this add-on is a step in the right direction.Â Mayby VMware should implement this add-on in VC. Nice job RichardÂ …. Keep it up…. A. Mikkelsen