I’ve been working on an overhauled version of the HA Deepdive Page. I’ve been adding “basic design principles” which hopefully you find useful.Here’s an example of what they look like: Basic design principle: For iSCSI the preferred isolation response is always “Power off” to avoid a possible split brain scenario. Another bit I’ve added is the following: Please keep in [...]
Rob de Veij has just released a new version of RVTools. The update only contains bug fixes but most definitely worth downloading again! Version 2.8.1 (February 2010) On vHost tab new field: number of running vCPUs On vSphere VMs in vApp where not displayed. Filter not working correct when annotations or custum fields contains null value. When NTP server(s) = [...]
When I tried to download patches via a freshly installed VMware vSphere Update Manager today I received the following error: https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/index.xml; hosting the patch definitions and patches cannot be reached or has no patch data Although we configured a proxy including the appropriate account it would not work. As suggested in this KB article I removed the “http://” part of [...]
Rob de Veij just released a brand new version of RVTools. Download it while it is still hot! Please note that this application supports ESX(i) Server 3.5 and vCenter 2.5. vSphere 4 is in experimental support. Latest Version: 2.8 | January 31, 2010 Download | Documentation On vHost tab field “# VMs” now only powered on VMs are counted. On vHost tab [...]
VMware has just released LCM 1.1. What’s new? VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager (LCM) 1.1 release enhances the performance, robustness, and scalability of LCM and resolves a number of known issues. The LCM 1.1 release runs on VMware vCenter Orchestrator 4.0.1. To run LCM 1.1, you must install the version of Orchestrator (4.0.1 Build 4502) that accompanies the LCM 1.1 download. [...]
Alan Renouf posted an article on the vSphere Quick Start Guide we recently wrote which triggered this article. First let me quote from Alan’s article: I was responsible for adding all the PowerCLI throughout the book, basically if something is explained and there is an easy way to do it in PowerCLI, we have added a code reference, this enables [...]
Rob de Veij has just updated RVTools to version 2.7.3. This excellent tool now includes the following additional features and fixes: Version 2.7.3 (December 19, 2009) Files in .snapshot directories are no longer reported as zombies. CTK files are no longer reported as zombies. The problems with VM files which are placed in the root directory are now solved. Under [...]
