I just hit an all time high of 4000 unique visitors on one day…. Man this is going insane. Thanks everybody for visiting my website, it makes it worth it. I hope I can be at VMworld next time and do a better job at feeding you with information.
PlateSpin PowerRecon and missing Servers
It seems that when you create a Scenario within PlateSpin PowerRecon and some of the workload counters are missing for certain servers that these servers are left out of the calculations. So if you have 100 servers of which 10 have missing counters the calculations will be done based on 90 servers. As you can imagine it might be useful to include all servers in to the scenario calculations. By default this isn’t possible. But you can modify a config file to achieve this:
For PowerRecon 3.1:
- Edit the PowerRecon.config for 3.1 with Notepad or a similar editor
Location should be: \Program Files\PlateSpin PowerRecon 3.1 Server\configs\ - Locate and edit the entry as shown below:
<add key=”consolidationUseAllResources” value=”1″></add> - Change the above so that the value will be equal to “0” instead of “1” (which * excludes * incomplete workload profiles):
<add key=”consolidationUseAllResources” value=”0″></add> - Save the file
- Restart the PowerRecon Service 3.1
- Load the PowerRecon Client
- Re-Create the Consolidation Project
You will now see an increased number of servers available in your consolidation project. Thanks Patrick for this very useful information!
For those that didn’t go to VMworld… part II
So after I shutdown my pc a couple of great articles were released, read ’em or view ’em here:
Rich Bramley: BC3819: Re-architecting Data Protection Processes with Data Deduplication and Virtualization Technologies
VirtualFutute.info: Fault Tolerance
VirtualFuture.info: VDM 3.0
Scott Lowe: TA2668: VMware ESX Architectural Directions
Scott Lowe: BC2621: Fault-Tolerant VMs in VI: Operations and Best Practices
Eric Sloof: Video’s, Video’s, Video’s! Just keep checking his site regularly!
For those that didn’t go to VMworld…
There are a couple of great articles out there which are definitely worth reading:
- Colin McNamara – Cisco releases Nexus 1000v virtual switch for VMware
- Scott Lowe – BC2621: Fault-Tolerant VMs in VI: Operations and Best Practices (live blogging)
- Scott Lowe – TA2668: VMware ESX Architectural Directions (live blogging)
- Rich Brambley – TA3807: VirtualCenter Directions (live blogging)