Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

Performance stats gone

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Clint discovered the following:

Source –
Ran into a problem while doing some performance testing on some test VMs. We found that we had no historical performance data for the VM or Host. All we had was real time data. This can be a major issue, especially when you are trying to troubleshoot or like in this case get performance data for a performance test! My co-worker did some research and found that we are not an isolated event. This is a bug in VC 2.5.

The Fix

We found a few references to doing a “repair” install of VC 2.5. So we went ahead and tried it and it worked. We also found references to the performance data getting corrupted. In that case they had to restore the database to a prior dataset and re-install the VC.

I’ve seen the same at several customer sites and indeed the fix that Clint describes, repair of VirtualCenter, works.

Customization specifications fails during entering password

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For some weird reason the customization specification wizard in VirtualCenter 2.5 fails when entering the administrator password. The error: An internal error occurred, and the wizard is unable to store the administrator password securely.

After reinstalling VirtualCenter the error still occurs. I googled the error and stumbled upon this VMware KB but this did not solve my problem…. I’m lost, anyone?

Strange…

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That’s strange I just noticed that a blog was posted that I did not actually publish…. Let’s hope it’s not a bug in WordPress and just me pushing the wrong buttons.

Novell also creating a standalone hypervisor

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According to eWEEK, Novell is also busy creating a stand alone hypervisor to enter the XenServer, Hyper-V and ESX(i) battle. It will be Xen based and in my opinion a smart move considering they bought Platespin and already have a management tool called Orchestrator. It’s a shame they are a few years late, they should have bought Xenserver when they had the chance… or even Virtual Iron. Anyway we will just have to wait and see,

Novell Chief Technology Officer Jeff Jaffe hinted at a stand-alone hypervisor product during his keynote address at the BrainShare conference in March, saying one of Novell’s goals was to make SLES 11 available as an appliance that would be supported by a new tool set designed to quickly build specialized images.