I think this will make you happy. VMware just released the vCloud Director virtual appliance. That means no more installing Red Hat, Oracle and vCloud Director. Just download the appliance and deploy it. On top of there is a great vCloud Cloud Director Evaluators Guide which will help you to evaluate the product. vCloud Director virtual appliance download (You will [...]

** Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, please don’t make these .vmx changes in your environment as it is not supported! ** Yesterday I showed how to recover from a vShield App crash. Now bare in mind that this scenario is very rare. Today I decided to lock down my environment to the level where it was impossible to login [...]

I am just playing around in my lab and needed to do a couple of common ESXi commandline tasks which I figured I would document as they will come in handy at some point. List all VMs registered to this host (This reveals the Vmid needed for other commands) vim-cmd /vmsvc/getallvms Unregister a VM vim-cmd /vmsvc/unregister <Vmid> Register a VM [...]

I bet you wouldn’t mind winning any of the following: 10 x Iomega SSD 10 x Iomega IX2 Cloud Edition 2 x iPad gen 1 5 x iPad gen 2 1 x VNXe 3300 with 10GbE/1GbE and 15 x 600GB 10K RPM spindles (!!) Yes you did read that correctly a VNXe with 15 x 600GB disk… It is crazy [...]

I was playing around with vShield App and I locked out my vCenter VM which happened to be hosted on the cluster which was protected by vShield App. Yes I know that it is not recommended, but I have a limited amount of compute resources in my lab and I can’t spare a full server just for vCenter so I [...]

Today I was working on a couple of test scenarios in a remote lab. For some reason the latency was a lot higher than normal and I was very difficult to type anything in the Remote Console through the vCenter Client. Every single character I tried popped up 2 or 3 times… which makes it very difficult to type a [...]

I had the question today what happens to a powered off VM when the host they are registered against fails? This customer always has multiple powered off VMs and was afraid their VMs would show up as orphaned. I was pretty confident that the VM would be re-registered against one of the remaining hosts in the cluster, but I validated [...]