I’ve been looking into creating JeOS VM’s. JeOS stands for “Just enough Operating System“. In short: a purpose build OS that only contains the bare minimum that one needs to run. In a virtual world, where footprint matters, it can be really beneficial to use JeOS vm’s. Although JeOS sounds great one of the problems used to be creating JeOS [...]

I already predicted that this was bound to happen sooner or later. It only took William Lam, aka lamw, a couple of days to enhance the work that Joseph Holland did. Joseph wrote a procedure that let’s APC’s software initiate a shutdown of the VM’s and ESXi host when a power failure occurs. Joseph’s solution included a modification of ESXi [...]

Veeam just released Backup 3.0 with ESXi(including the Free version) support: In addition to the ESXi backup through VCB that was introduced with version 2.0, Veeam Backup 3.0 now supports ESXi backup without VCB. Veeam Backup is the only VMware backup solution that lets you backup and restore virtual machines running on all existing editions of ESXi, including ESXi free. [...]

As it seems Tripwire is preparing a new toolkit. Opscheck is the first of more to come that has been released. Tripwire created a new website / community called vWire. They moved Configcheck over to vWire and added Opscheck to the list. Where Configcheck identifies possible security vulnerabilities and Opscheck checks for VMware VMotion support by rapidly analyzing ESX 3.0, [...]

Herco van Brug aka “brugh” just released a new version of ESX Deployment Appliance(EDA), 0.87. New in 0.87: editing the order of the scriptparts bulk creation and deletion of ESX hostnames/ip an fs.php page that allows for small remote updates ESXi support fixed again So if you want to install your ESX hosts in a consistent way and faster than [...]

Joseph Holland just updated the “UPS initiated shutdown of ESXi” document I blogged about this week. This time Joseph used VIMA to get the job done. Here’s a link to the document on VI:OPS. The procedure still requires an unsupported change on ESXi. My guess is that this will soon be fixed by using perl on VIMA. Perl enables you [...]

Rob de Veij just released a minor update for RVTools, 2.3.1. Rob was notified by several users that an error occured while using RVTools. Here is the relevant section from the release notes: Bug on vDatastore tab fixed: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type ‘VimApi.NasDatastoreInfo’ to type ‘VimApi.VmfsDatastoreInfo’. If you are running RVTools, be sure to pick up the [...]