VMware has just released patch 3 for vMA and it contains several security fixes so make sure to update your Management Appliance! Here’s how to do it:
# sudo vima-update scan # sudo vima-update update
vima
vMA Patch 2
in the ghetto….
William Lam just updated two of his most popular scripts. If you haven’t looked at them yet, make sure you do as they are worth it. ghettoVCB(g2) enables the backup of virtual machines residing on either an ESX or ESXi host. ghettoVCBg2 is a complete rewritten and enhanced version of ghettoVCB or as William puts it “harder, better, faster, stronger”.
11/17/09 – The following enhancements and fixes have been implemented in this release of ghettoVCBg2. Special thanks goes out to Gerhard Ostermann for assisting with some of the logic in the ghettoVCBg2 script and the rest of the ghettoVCBg2 BETA testers. Thanks for everyones time and comments to make this script better!
Enhancements:
- Email log support
- Include/exclude specific VMDK(s)
- Additional logging + dry run mode
Fixes:
- Independent disk aware
- Large VMDK backups
Original script, but updated with new features and a bug fix:
11/17/09 – The following enhancements and fixes have been implemented in this release of ghettoVCB. Special thanks goes out to all the ghettoVCB BETA testers for providing time and their environments to test features/fixes of the new script!
Enhancements:
- Individual VM backup policy
- Include/exclude specific VMDK(s)
- Logging to file
- Timeout variables
- Configur snapshot memory/quiesce
- Adapter format
- Additional logging + dryrun mode
- Support for both physical/virtual RDMs
Fixes:
- Independent disk aware
VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) Patch 01
For those running vMA (previously known as VIMA) patch 01 has just been released. You can find all the details in this KB article. Updating the appliance when the proxy has been set up can be done on the command line by typing the following command:
sudo vima-update update
VMware vSphere Health Check Report v1.0
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.