A couple of weeks ago I published an article on the maximum amount of VMs one could run on a ESX host. In short; if you enabled HA on your cluster it restricts the amount of VMs you can run on a host depending on the total amount of hosts in the cluster. This means that depending on your consolidation [...]
I just wanted to access my ESX 4.0 server via https. Unfortunately I received a “503 Service unavailable” error. First I checked if the service was running: service vmware-webAccess status It wasn’t running so I started it: service vmware-webAccess start But why did this happen? Well page 7 of the vSphere Web Access Guide revealed it. As of ESX 4.0 [...]
For those who don’t own vSphere Enteprise Plus licenses it’s a bit more difficult to set up a consistent virtual environment. I’m glad Herco van Brug aka Brugh put a lot of time and effort in developing the ESX Deployment Appliance. Herco just released a brand new version, v0.90. Here are the release notes: ESX 4 support ESXi 4 support [...]
We are proud to officially announce the VMworld 2009 – Ask the Experts Panel Session. This session will feature virtualization experts Rick Scherer, Scott Lowe, Duncan Epping, Chad Sakac and Tom Howarth answering your questions on virtual infrastructure design. In the next week or so we will be posting sections on our blog sites for you to submit questions for [...]
As some of you know I did a health check in Saudi Arabia a couple of weeks ago. A health check is a relatively short engagement. A couple of days on-site and a day off-site for a report. When vSphere went GA I started thinking about all the things I discovered during this particular health check. Now some might say [...]
Every time I do a Site Recovery Manager jumpstart or start a project the same questions pops up. What port numbers must be open for SRM and VirtualCenter / vCenter Server to be able to communicate? kb.vmware.com/kb/1006738: The following ports are used for the respective products and must be open for remote communication: VMware VirtualCenter / vCenter Server: 80 (HTTP) [...]
***Please use this supported method instead of the one below*** The procedure has not changed much since ESXi 3.5 but I thought I would document it anyway. A lot of people seem to end up here by googling “USB ESXi vSphere”. Here you go: First get the following tools: 7-Zip(Free), WinImage(Demo) Download the ESXi ISO (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0-164009.x86_64.iso) Open the ISO with [...]
