by Duncan Epping
John just added a whole bunch of cool new blogs to the Planet V12 RSS Feed! What an enormous list of cool blogs and news sites. This is almost too much! It would be cool if there were at least two sections, technical and news for instance. I know not every blog is that strict but their must be a way to divide it so it doesn’t take me two days just to catch up. And Microsoft also started feeding, so another feed to read!
Anyway, Planet V12, the place to be!
I was just checking out the scripts on the VI Powershell Contest. There’s some really cool stuff on there. One of the things I noticed is that out of the 16 contestants so far at least 5 are from the Netherlands!!! Anyway, there are some cool scripts on this page, check it out. And if you think you are up to the challenge, enter the competition now cause there are only two days left!
Cisco just bought PostPath, PostPath offers a Linux-based e-mail, calendaring and collaboration solution. It is interoperable with many other e-mail solutions and provides a browser-independent AJAX Web client. In addition, PostPath’s software is compatible with a number of mobile clients. Most of you guys probably know Zimbra, an open source competitor of Exchange… PostPath can be compared to Zimbra
Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $215 million in exchange for all shares of PostPath. The transaction will be accounted for in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to be complete in Cisco’s first quarter of fiscal year 2009. Upon completion of the acquisition, PostPath employees will become part of the Cisco Collaboration Software Group (CSG). CSG is part of the recently established Software Group, consisting of Cisco’s major software businesses; including the IOS network operating system, network and service management, Unified Communications solutions, policy management, and SaaS offerings.
The acquisition of PostPath complements our strategy to develop an integrated collaboration platform designed for how we work today and into the future, providing real productivity gains and a more satisfying user experience”, said Doug Dennerline, Cisco senior vice president, Collaboration Software Group. “Our ‘cloud-based’ delivery model offers our customers rapid deployment and compelling economics.
I’ve never been a huge fan of agents in the Service Console. Too many times I’ve seen hosts fail because of an agent that had a memory leak etc. Now it seems that running the HP IM agents causes your ESX 3.5 U2 to become unavailable after a certain amount of time.
The errors that appear:
0 Z root 8536 3673 0 79 0 – 0 nct> Aug05 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 8537 3673 0 79 0 – 0 nct> Aug05 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 8543 3673 0 78 0 – 0 nct> Aug05 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 32350 3673 0 79 0 – 0 nct> Aug06 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 32351 3673 0 79 0 – 0 nct> Aug06 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 32352 3673 0 79 0 – 0 nct> Aug06 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
0 Z root 32353 3673 0 78 0 – 0 nct> Aug06 ? 00:00:00 cimservera
HStrydom on the VMTN forum posted the following:
I am having the same issue. What happens after 17 days is that there are about 32000 of these processes. ESX has a max value of +- 32000 PID’s. Thus when all have been used up, one cannot SSH into the server, log in from the console or the ESX server disconnects from VC.
Also we have HP servers with the HP agents loaded. Our Dell servers does not have this problem.
Have a look at your cron log, /var/log/cron & cron.1. you might see that some of the job have not run. Also look in your /var/log/messages. There is a lot of login failures.
In other words, if you see the same thing happening call HP and let’s hope they release a fix soon! And in the meanwhile start thinking about ESXi, it’s problems like these that makes you think about why you even need a Service Console in the first place.
There are some really useful topics on SRM on the VMTN forum, for those interested in SRM be sure to check them out:
SRM bunch of questions
Some unanswered questions
How to backup and recover a recovery plan
I just love the VMTN forum! So if you’re still not signed up and participating be sure to join asap cause you’re missing out on the good stuff!