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 [...]
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What if my VirtualCenter server crashes?
August 5th, 2008
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Seva, a VMware Technical Account Manager, put together a cool table with the implications of a VirtualCenter crash. This is a follow up to my blog about VirtualCenter getting more important by the minute. I think the most important thing to remember is that the VM’s keep running whatever happens to your VC Server and [...]
Follow Up: HA Change (isolation response)
July 31st, 2008
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I’ve been asking around why the default isolation response has been changed from “power off” to “leave powered on”. It seems that this is done because a lot of customers had VM’s being powered off unnecessary. This happened because the service console or physical switches weren’t setup redundant and thus caused HA to kick in. [...]
VirtualCenter database
July 31st, 2008
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There has always been much discussion about the VirtualCenter database if it was important enough to back it up. Most people agreed that the information that the database held was not important. A datacenter and cluster could be easily reconfigured and all other settings were saved on the host. HA wasn’t even using VirtualCenter, and [...]
Cool feature of the VMware Converter plugin
July 30th, 2008
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How about backing up that dreadful application/server that you couldn’t or did not wanted to virtualize to your ESX environment? It could be useful to have a copy of a server that for whatever reason you did not virtualize. The new VMware Converter plugin for VirtualCenter gives you this option. You can create a reoccurring [...]
High Availability change
July 29th, 2008
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I just noticed the following, when creating a new(!) HA cluster on VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 2 the default isolation response is set to “Leave powered on”. In other words, when your ESX host hasn’t got a network connection any more the VM’s remain on. This is a huge change because the default used to be [...]
ESX 3.5 Update 2 available now!
July 26th, 2008
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Am I the first one to notice this? VMware just released Update 2 for ESX(i) 3.5 and a whole bunch of new patches!
So what’s new?
Windows Server 2008 support – Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions) is supported as a guest operating system. With VMware’s memory overcommit technology and the reliability of ESX, [...]
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