It seems to be that a lot of rumors are floating around of all the new features that VMware suposedly is going to announce during VMworld:
Well we will just have to wait and see….
by Duncan Epping
Duncan Epping · ·
It seems to be that a lot of rumors are floating around of all the new features that VMware suposedly is going to announce during VMworld:
Well we will just have to wait and see….
Duncan Epping · ·
So can someone please explain to me why Microsoft is working on live migration and just did a demo(1, 2) of this new feature? Some of you might think, what the heck are you talking about? Well let me quote a couple of lines out of a MS Virtualization blog a couple of months ago:
We’ve drilled into these scenarios further and asked customers, who have currently have Live Migration capabilities, if they have changed their servicing process. In particular, when do they perform their hardware servicing. Is it during business hours 9-5? The overwhelming answer is, “No, we still schedule server downtime and notify folks of the scheduled downtime.”
Even customers with Live Migration still wait until off hours to service the hardware.
So if the customers are waiting until off hours, thus not needing this feature… why the hell spend all that precious time till 2010 to get this in 2008 R2!?! Why not spend your time useful and INNOVATE for a change? Come up with a feature that shocks the world.
Well let’s end this blog possitive, great idea to give away a stripped down standalone Hyper-V version away for free! Well it might sound as if I’m not serious, but I’m really curious how stripped down it is. What I understood is that it’s just Windows 2008 Core with Hyper-V pre-installed and all the other roles left out. Well we’ll just have to wait and see.
Duncan Epping · ·
Or atleast that’s what it sounds like. It seems that my HDD of my Lenovo X61 is dying… A shame, especially if you consider that it contains my complete home lab within VMware workstation. Let’s just hope I can get this thing running again, but the “unmountable boot volume” makes me think I’m running out of luck. So just to be sure I’ll try to image my disk to another disk, and than do a repair with the Windows XP CD and let’s just see what it comes up with.
I think I will spend some time tomorrow on writing a backup script… which dumps my doc’s to my ftp server in a zipped file.
Duncan Epping · ·
Because I’ve been looking into HA myself I wanted to clarify things up, for you guys and for myself… writing is a good way of getting the facts straight. I’ve seen and get a lot of questions regarding HA. So I just bundled a bunch of questions I received over the last couple of months…
How does a primary and / or secondary get selected?
What’s up with these primaries and secondaries?
So what if a primary node fails, will a secondary be promoted?
But what if all my primary nodes fail?
So when does the gateway come in play?
So if anyone has a question just drop it here and I’ll try to answer it and update the above list…
Duncan Epping · ·
By default your VirtualCenter logfiles are stored in a temp folder(as of 2.5 they are stored in: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs). VMware Wolf wrote a nice article about all the locations these log files are stuffed. For some reason I don’t get a pleasant feeling when I store my VirtualCenter (VPXD) log files in a temporary windows directory or the profile directory for that matter(thanks for the comment!!). If there’s one thing admin’s clean up first when they tend to run out of diskspace it’s their temp directory… it’s called temp for a good reason!
So in order to prevent this you could change the location of the VPXD log files very easily. Edit “vpxd.cfg”. It’s located here: %AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\.
Add the following lines in the “<config>” section and change the path accordingly:
<log>
<directory>c:\VC_Logs</directory>
</log>