Many admins have upgraded to Windows 7 and gotten into problems when trying to install the vSphere Client. I have found a few guides to do a workaround, but the best guide is found at techhead.co.uk. http://www.techhead.co.uk/running-vmware-vsphere-client-on-windows-7 Thanks to Kiwi Si.
Yesterday I by mistake extended a disk on a VM that had snapshots. Using vmkfstools. Kind of like this thread (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/238035). This resulted in the following PowerOn error: Failed to power on Servername on Host in Cluster: Cannot open the disk ‘/vmfs/volumes/LUN/Folder/VM.vmdk’ Reason: The parent virtual machine disk has been modified since the child was… Read More »
Last week I upgraded a Virtual Center server from Win2003 & MSSQL 2000 (32-bit) to Win2008 & MSSQL 2005 (64-bit). During the installation of vCenter it asked for a 32-bit ODBC even though all the new systems was running 64-bit. After a some time on Google i found that Windows 64-bit also includes a 32-bit… Read More »
Duncan Epping has released a great post on how to partition your ESX 4.0 (vSphere) using scripting and the grafical installer http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/05/27/partitioning-your-esx-host-part-ii/ You cannot define the sizes of the /boot, vmkcore, and /vmfs partitions when you use the graphical or text installation modes. You can define these partition sizes when you do a scripted installation.… Read More »
Today when I needed to upgrade my VC database from MSSQL2000 to MSSQL 2005 i came upon these quick guides. http://blog.core-it.com.au/?p=27 http://spininfo.homelinux.com/news/VirtualCenter/2008/01/06/Howto_Move_Migrate_Design_VC_DB_from_SQL2000_to_SQL2005__
If you want to add a website tab to your vCenter, then here is a quick way to do it. http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1270-vSphere-Plugin-Wizard-Released.html Thanks to Ricky over at virtualizeplanet.com
Have you ever needed to document how secure your ESX servers are. If the answer is yes then take a look at these free fools (Compliance Checkers) from ConfigureSoft.com. http://www.configuresoft.com/compliance-checker.aspx If the answer is no I would sugest you took a look at the tools anyway…… Compliance Checker for VMware ESX, checks the compliance of… Read More »
VMware have released a demo on YouTube that shows a “must have” for PowerShell users who automate and manage vSphere and vCenter through PowerShell. The project is named “Onyx” and works like a middelware between the vCenter Client and the vCenter Server. Onyx is unfortunately still in a private beta and therefore not acceble to… Read More »
Simon Long has posted a great test exam for the VCP410 exam. I used it to study for mine. http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcp-vsphere-4-practice-exam/ Also take a look at Somins study notes. http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcdx-study-notes/ Another great and very usefull help is to use and memorize the vReference Card. http://www.vreference.com/ Thanks to VCP for the below study sites http://www.passguide.com/vcp-410.html http://www.vcp-410.com And not… Read More »
Yesterday I passed the VCP401 exam with 375 points. I feel that the exam was harder than the old exam (VCP310). Think VMware has realized this and dropped the target for VCI from 400 to 350 points.