September 1st, 2008 |
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For some reason Thomas Weyell’s blog doesn’t get as much attention as it should! Thomas posted a cool article about using Solaris with ZFS as an NFS target for your ESX hosts:
Today I will write about a great subject which means a lot to me.
I read so often that people will use NFS as a cheap and easy shared storage for VMware ESX.
Conceptional! If you want to test something in a test environment, you need cheap storage or what ever you can use NFS. But why so much pepole will use NFS on Linux? There is not one benefit against NFS on ZFS with Solaris 10/Nevada. So lets use a great protocol from the same vendor who develop a very great filesystem and operating system. Lets checkout NFS and ZFS with Solaris…
So check out the complete article here download Solaris(it’s free you guys!!!) and test it out! Did I say it’s free?!! Cool stuff Thomas,
August 30th, 2008 |
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Scott already wrote about this one yesterday… A lot of people have been asking for a Linux VirtualCenter client for a long time. I’m sorry this is not the announcement for the official client. But there might be a decent Linux, Mac and Windows client coming up. There’s a beta going around of a product named Kodiak, by a company called Bluebear:
Welcome to the next generation of unified systems management! Kodiak, from BlueBear, enables unprecedented visibility into and control over virtualized infrastructures, regardless of size or composition. As the industry’s only application that’s both hypervisor-agnostic and cross-platform, Kodiak sets a new standard in versatility, pushing virtualization out of the datacenter and catalyzing it’s widespread adoption throughout the information technology landscape. BlueBear believes useful software should be available to anybody who needs it, and at no cost; hence Kodiak’s price, totally free!
In other words, expect a client which can manage ESX, Hyper-V and Xenserver at the same time! Unfortunately there’s not much info available at the moment. I’ve send these guys an email to see if I can get a Beta to test it out! Check this page for a couple screenshots, it already looks promising I must say! So I’m gonna build a Ubuntu workstation and hope I will receive this beta soon and can start testing!
I love the title in the application bar: Kodiak: Ruling your virtual empire. How cool does that sound!
August 29th, 2008 |
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John just added a whole bunch of cool new blogs to the Planet V12 RSS Feed! What an enormous list of cool blogs and news sites. This is almost too much! It would be cool if there were at least two sections, technical and news for instance. I know not every blog is that strict but their must be a way to divide it so it doesn’t take me two days just to catch up. And Microsoft also started feeding, so another feed to read!
Anyway, Planet V12, the place to be!
August 28th, 2008 |
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I was just checking out the scripts on the VI Powershell Contest. There’s some really cool stuff on there. One of the things I noticed is that out of the 16 contestants so far at least 5 are from the Netherlands!!! Anyway, there are some cool scripts on this page, check it out. And if you think you are up to the challenge, enter the competition now cause there are only two days left!
August 28th, 2008 |
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Cisco just bought PostPath, PostPath offers a Linux-based e-mail, calendaring and collaboration solution. It is interoperable with many other e-mail solutions and provides a browser-independent AJAX Web client. In addition, PostPath’s software is compatible with a number of mobile clients. Most of you guys probably know Zimbra, an open source competitor of Exchange… PostPath can be compared to Zimbra
Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $215 million in exchange for all shares of PostPath. The transaction will be accounted for in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to be complete in Cisco’s first quarter of fiscal year 2009. Upon completion of the acquisition, PostPath employees will become part of the Cisco Collaboration Software Group (CSG). CSG is part of the recently established Software Group, consisting of Cisco’s major software businesses; including the IOS network operating system, network and service management, Unified Communications solutions, policy management, and SaaS offerings.
The acquisition of PostPath complements our strategy to develop an integrated collaboration platform designed for how we work today and into the future, providing real productivity gains and a more satisfying user experience”, said Doug Dennerline, Cisco senior vice president, Collaboration Software Group. “Our ‘cloud-based’ delivery model offers our customers rapid deployment and compelling economics.
August 27th, 2008 |
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I’ve never been a huge fan of agents in the Service Console. Too many times I’ve seen hosts fail because of an agent that had a memory leak etc. Now it seems that running the HP IM agents causes your ESX 3.5 U2 to become unavailable after a certain amount of time.
The errors that appear:
0 Z root 8536 3673 0 79 0 – 0 nct> Aug05 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 8537 3673 0 79 0 – 0 nct> Aug05 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 8543 3673 0 78 0 – 0 nct> Aug05 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 32350 3673 0 79 0 – 0 nct> Aug06 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 32351 3673 0 79 0 – 0 nct> Aug06 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 32352 3673 0 79 0 – 0 nct> Aug06 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 32353 3673 0 78 0 – 0 nct> Aug06 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
HStrydom on the VMTN forum posted the following:
I am having the same issue. What happens after 17 days is that there are about 32000 of these processes. ESX has a max value of +- 32000 PID’s. Thus when all have been used up, one cannot SSH into the server, log in from the console or the ESX server disconnects from VC.
Also we have HP servers with the HP agents loaded. Our Dell servers does not have this problem.
Have a look at your cron log, /var/log/cron & cron.1. you might see that some of the job have not run. Also look in your /var/log/messages. There is a lot of login failures.
In other words, if you see the same thing happening call HP and let’s hope they release a fix soon! And in the meanwhile start thinking about ESXi, it’s problems like these that makes you think about why you even need a Service Console in the first place.
August 24th, 2008 |
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There are some really useful topics on SRM on the VMTN forum, for those interested in SRM be sure to check them out:
SRM bunch of questions
Some unanswered questions
How to backup and recover a recovery plan
I just love the VMTN forum! So if you’re still not signed up and participating be sure to join asap cause you’re missing out on the good stuff!
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