Eric Sloof(1, 2, 3) already explored the new “alarms and actions” capabilities. There’s one that really stands out in my opinion in the next release of ESX/vCenter(vSphere):
Indeed, “Enter maintenance mode“. Now you might wonder when you would want to use this. Wouldn’t it be nice that when your hardware is degraded, for instance memory status [...]
Ivo Beerens just published a new version of his Powershell Healthcheck script. The script will report the following in a nicely formatted html file:
VMware ESX server Hardware and version
VMware vCenter version
Cluster information
VMware statistics
Active Snapshots
CDROMs connected to VMs
Floppy drives connected to VMs
Datastores Information such as free space
RDM information
VM information such as VMware tools version, processor and [...]
This KB article has just been published:
Virtual Machines may unexpectedly reboot after a VMotion migration to an ESX 3.5 Update 3 Host OR after a Power On operation on an ESX 3.5 Update 3 Host, when VMware HA feature with Virtual Machine Monitoring is active.
There’s a work around for the problem but I will not [...]
Veeam just announced 4.0 of the “Management Pack for VMware”, also known as NWorks:
Version 4.0 includes comprehensive end-to-end monitoring from ESX Cluster, to ESX Host, to Virtual Machine and to Applications inside the VM. The nworks/Veeam MP now provides integration of application and service data with the VI3 topology. This breakthrough functionality enables a fully [...]
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide