I needed to run an appliance inside VMware Fusion on my Mac, the appliance was in OVF format. VMware Fusion currently does not support this format and requires you to convert the image with a tool called ovftool which can be downloaded at the following location: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/automationtools/ovf Conversion is as simple as: ./ovftool “source.ovf” “target” Optionally you could use parameters [...]
After the VCDX defenses Boston I had a chat with Craig Risinger, also known as 006 . We discussed some of the things we’d seen on the panels and came to the conclusion that it wouldn’t hurt to reiterate some of the tips we’ve given in the past. It’s OK to change your actual project documents. See the following points [...]
I had a discussion with one of my readers last week and just read this post on the VMTN community which triggered this article. When you create a highly available environment take into account that you will need to have enough vSwitch ports available when a failover needs to occur. By default a vSwitch will be created with 56 ports [...]
Something that a lot of people haven’t looked in to or just don’t think about is relocating the log files of vCenter, I wrote a short article 2 years ago and thought it was time to reiterate it. By default (Windows 2003) log files are stored in “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs”, and for Windows 2008 log files are [...]
Yesterday we had a discussion on running vCenter virtual on one of the internal mailinglists. One of the gaps identified was the lack of a best practices document. Although there are multiple for VI3 and there are some KB articles these do need seem to be easy to find or complete. This is one of the reasons I wrote this [...]
John Arrasjid created a Twitter account and has been tweeting VCDX Tips over last week or so. These tips are valuable for everyone doing the VCDX Track and going for the defense. That’s the reason for archiving them on a blog post as tweets are bound to get lost in space while a blog post gets indexed by google. This [...]
