It seems to be a question that often pops up on the VMTN forum, how can I move my ESX hosts to my freshly installed vCenter server? The answer is actually pretty simple: Just to be on the save side, set DRS to manual and disable HA on the “old” vCenter server / cluster Right click the ESX host and [...]
It’s just a minor update this time from Rob de Veij: RVTools 2.5.1 Version 2.5.1 (April 15, 2009) Bug fix! Better exception handling on the vDisk and vNetwork tab pages. With the help from Alan Civita this problem is now solved! Thanks again Alan.
I love exploring new products, no matter how many times I click through the GUI and browse through the directory structure on the console you discover will discover something new everyday. I never noticed this one, but as of the next version of ESX/vCenter you can rescan your complete cluster or datacenter just by right clicking on the object and [...]
Rob de Veij has done it again…. a brand new version of RVTools, 2.5! Here are the new features of this release: The installation file now understands how to upgrade without the need to uninstall the previous version first. The documentation file is now also deployed to the program directory.You can start the Adobe reader from the RVTools “help” menu. [...]
A few weeks ago I had a conference call with an unknown company, well at least for me it was still unknown. Eric Chiu contacted me if he, and his team, could demonstrate their new product. HyTrust‘s product is an appliance. Not only virtual but also physical. But as a virtualization consultant of course the virtual appliance is what interested [...]
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 changed or hardware power [...]
I was exploring the next version of ESX / vCenter again today and did a Storage VMotion via the vSphere client. I decided to take a couple of screenshots to get you guys acquainted with the new look/layout. Doing a Storage VMotion via the GUI is nothing spectacular cause we all have used the 3rd party plugins. But changing the [...]
