by Duncan Epping
One of my customers asked me how they could change the administrator email address after the installation of SRM. He turned the GUI upside down but couldn’t find it anywhere. Extension.xml is the configuration xml file where you can change the Administrator Email:
<adminEmail>admin@yellow-bricks.com</adminEmail>
VMware recently posted two new Whitepapers, which are most definitely worth reading:
VMware VMFS Volume Management
Technical explanation as to how VMFS Volume Manager handles disks that are presented to the ESX server. This informational note covers use settings to mount or resignature volumes that appear as duplicates to the original volumes created by VMFS.
SQL Server and VMware Virtual Infrastructure
Microsoft SQL Server is a very popular and widely deployed general purpose database server supported on Windows Sever operating systems. As customers embrace a “virtualize first” policy for all applications within their enterprises, they often need guidelines for deploying SQL Server in VMware Infrastructure. This paper should help you understand how to characterize your SQL Server databases for virtualization and the best practices for designing VMware Infrastructure to support SQL Server.
I’ve been playing around with my vSphere/Next gen ESX lab. I was replaying the VMworld lab and one of the assignments was to resize a VMFS volume. Yes that’s correct, resize not extent. Extents have been discussed by many and the general consensus is avoid them if/when possible. But when running out of diskspace you don’t always have the option to avoid them. Some can’t afford the downtime that comes with a “cold migration”, and most aren’t willing to take the risk of using storage vmotion when running out of diskspace. (Snapshot is placed on source VMFS volume) This has all been solved in the next version of ESX/vCenter. You can resize your VMFS volume without resorting to extents, and you can do this with the vCenter client.
The original size:
First thing you will need to do is increase the size of the LUN on your SAN. If your SAN doesn’t support LUN resizing you can still do it the old fashion way, extent. [Read more…] about Resizing your VMFS the right way, exploring the next version of ESX/vCenter
I received a private message on the VMTN Community that the vCenter Mobile Access forum had been opened up. I wasn’t sure if I could blog about it but John Troyer just posted a message on twitter so it’s out in the open. Read the VMTN blog post about vCenter Mobile Access for more info or just watch the youtube movie and discover what it is all about. Go to the VMTN Community forums, join the program and manage your virtual environment from your mobile phone!
@lamw pointed me out via twitter to the “diy” VCB Management Console. The “vcbMC” is a front end for scheduling and creating backup jobs based on VMware Consolidated Backup. As “athlon_crazy” points out you don’t need to remember all the VCB commands and parameters. You can use vcbMC to browse all your VM’s and back them up according to the schedule you created:
I haven’t tested it myself so far unfortunately, make sure to test the results of the backup.