As it seems Tripwire is preparing a new toolkit. Opscheck is the first of more to come that has been released. Tripwire created a new website / community called vWire. They moved Configcheck over to vWire and added Opscheck to the list. Where Configcheck identifies possible security vulnerabilities and Opscheck checks for VMware VMotion support by rapidly analyzing ESX 3.0, [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Train Signal, the post included a reduction coupon, YELLOWBRICKS. This coupon gives you 25% reduction on the Train Signal virtualization CBTs. Train Signal was so kind to also provide me with an additional coupon that gives you free shipping: All you need to do is head over to Train Signal and enter [...]
My colleague Irfan just emailed me about a new paper he has been working on and which will be presented at the FAST 2009 conference. Irfan wrote this mind blowing paper with Ajay Gulati and Carl Waldspurger. PARDA: Proportional Allocation of Resources for Distributed Storage Access. Some of you might recognize Carl’s name by the way cause he also wrote [...]
Herco van Brug aka “brugh” just released a new version of ESX Deployment Appliance(EDA), 0.87. New in 0.87: editing the order of the scriptparts bulk creation and deletion of ESX hostnames/ip an fs.php page that allows for small remote updates ESXi support fixed again So if you want to install your ESX hosts in a consistent way and faster than [...]
Joseph Holland just updated the “UPS initiated shutdown of ESXi” document I blogged about this week. This time Joseph used VIMA to get the job done. Here’s a link to the document on VI:OPS. The procedure still requires an unsupported change on ESXi. My guess is that this will soon be fixed by using perl on VIMA. Perl enables you [...]
VMware vCenter Converter 4.0 has just been released. Don’t let this name fool you cause Converter is still also available as a stand alone solution for P2V’ing your servers! You can find the release notes here. So what’s new? Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) as source Physical to virtual machine conversion support for [...]
Rob de Veij just released a minor update for RVTools, 2.3.1. Rob was notified by several users that an error occured while using RVTools. Here is the relevant section from the release notes: Bug on vDatastore tab fixed: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type ‘VimApi.NasDatastoreInfo’ to type ‘VimApi.VmfsDatastoreInfo’. If you are running RVTools, be sure to pick up the [...]
