Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

Archives for 2009

SRM: Three updates, EMC / LSI / Hitachi SRA

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Just noticed three SRAs were updated. Might be worth checking out:

  1. EMC Symmetrix Storage Replication Adapter
    Version 2.0.0.21 | Released 04/20/2009
    Fixed : SRDF Adapter for VMWARE Site Recovery Manager (SRM) times out while trying to enumerate LUNs from a local Symmetrix array.
  2. LSI Storage Replication Adapter
    Version 1.00.30.12| Released 04/01/2009
  3. Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter 2
    Version 1.0.8| Released 03/24/2009

I added one of the fixes which is included with the EMC Symmetrix SRA cause I blogged about it a couple of months ago and I’m glad this has been solved.

Export and import DRS affinity rules

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I just noticed this awesome work by LucD. He developed two scripts which can import and export DRS affinity rules. Especially in large environments or environments that have multiple affinity rules this is an excellent solution. Take a look at the link above for more details. Luc posted the script half way down the topic in text but also added a modified version at the bottom. The VI Toolkit at it’s best… or should we call it PowerCLI these days?

Bluebear Kodiak, what’s up?

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I still receive a lot of beta invitation requests while it has been really quiet around Bluebear Kodiak over the last couple of months. (I did a (p)review a while back) I just received an email that a brand new version of the Kodiak beta is about to be released. I already received the Air file but haven’t been able to test it yet. But Matt Miller of Bluebear uploaded a demo video just which shows some of the new features and I must say it really looks slick.

If you are still looking for an invite, I received another 50 and it’s on a first come first serves base. Just click here for an invitation.

(update: the invites don’t seem to be working, I will ask Bluebear to fix it asap.)

VMware vSphere Health Check Report v1.0

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I already blogged about this awesome healthcheck script by William Lam a couple of times and it just has been updated to version 1.0. The following details have been added to the already extensive list:

  • New New licensing format/summary
  • New EVC Enabled information
  • New Cluster VM monitoring
  • New Cluster Host monitoring
  • New # of VMotions within a cluster
  • New Datastore uncommitted info
  • New CPU power management info
  • New VM info (FT, Record/Replay, Clean Poweroff)
  • New Host IPv6, FT, SSL Thumbprint
  • New Host Profiles
  • New vApp information
  • New Distributed vSwitch information

Check the detailed output example William uploaded recently.