Some of you might have looked into VIMA already. Those of you that didn’t please check it out because I expect this to be the way that VMware is heading. Note, I don’t know if it really is the way VMware is heading, but a Service Console with VMotion capabilities sounds like a winner to me. A little birdie also [...]
As some of you know I spend a lot of time on the VMTN forums, helping people out and learning from other experts. Today someone posted about Storage VMotion not working after a Service Console IP change. It reminded me of a problem I faced a while ago. The solution wasn’t obvious but fairly easy, because the problem was solved [...]
I see this a lot, and I also made the same mistake for a long time, because of the defaults of the ESX installer a lot of people tend to create a partition for /var/log. But keep in mind this means that everything else inside /var will belong to the root file system. So what’s the problem? Well there’s a [...]
I was just catching up and read this blog from Scott about managing ESXin a COS-less environment. The most interesting part of this blog is the following: The subject of deployment is a key issue when we think about losing the Service Console. One approach to handling these issues is deploying physical machines; another would be to deploy virtual machines [...]
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 [...]
I’ve seen a lot misinterpretations of the new advanced HA option “das.allowNetwork”. What is this option for and when should I use it or shouldn’t is the most asked question. So let’s start with a little history, back in the days “pre 3.5 U2″ one could configure a cluster on multiple IP subnets without facing any problems, but this could [...]
I just noticed that VMware also updated the Remote CLI, which was heavily criticized when it first came out because of the lack of commands. Now it contains almost every single command out there. And there’s a great PDF file about all the commands and the options. I guess the Remote CLI matured, I was wondering what the benefits were [...]
