Today i came accross a cool article about how to easy get your VM to boot from CD. This only applies to ESX 3.0.x and not ESX 3.5.x, because in ESX 3.5.x you are able to use the VI Client to set this option and many more. Read the full story here: In summery: add… Read More »
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
RTFM Education has released a quick guide for ESXi Get it here http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=476
Duncan over at YellowBricks.com found a undocumented fearure in the VCB config.js file One of my customers wanted to use the default VCB framework but did not want to quiesce the VM for several reasons. (Databases, Active Directory etc.) I could not find an option in the config.js file but noticed the following in the… Read More »
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 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
Frane Borozan has created a automated script based on VMware Converter to take a physical server and make fresh replica of it on VMware Server. It is worth a look. http://www.p2vbackup.com A. Mikkelsen
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 »
Just stumbled upon this nice tool to do SVmotion from a Windows server http://communities.vmware.com/thread/122847?tstart=0 A. Mikkelsen
How nice is this ….. Scalethemind.com has released a updated version of a script to generate a overview of how your ESX hosts disk space are used. Check it out. http://scalethemind.com/2008/02/script-checking-esx-disk-space-usage-from-a-central-linux-box/