AppSpeed update
I’ve had the AppSpeed demo setup and running in one of my clusters. When you get the demo temporary license, its for 16 cores worth. My smallest environment to test in is 160 cores deep. I figured no issue, I’ll just see what I get for a couple different apps to see how it works. [...]
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Restarting Mgmt Agents is dangerous
Once again I’m reminded that going in and doing /etc/init.d/mgmt-vmware restart and then /etc/init.d/vmware-vpxa restart is fairly dangerous and should only be done as a LAST resort. A co-worker was removing old NFS mounts and replacing them with new ones. So same named NFS mount was being used. He did an esxcfg-nas -d and then [...]
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Version #s not matching in latest patch release
For the first time in a while I’ve found a “gotcha” between the CLI & the VMware Infrastructure Client. When we did the updates the the latest ESX patches as of middle of June 09, the version # from running vmware -v and checking in the VIC client. CLI version: 3.5.0 build-169697 VIC Client [...]
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AppSpeed GAed
VMware vCenter AppSpeed product has just been officially released. For some reason I’m actually really hyped about this product. Guess its time to see if all the marketing foo really pays off and shows me a couple problem children and reasons in my environment. I’ll start testing this soon and post my results.
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VMware offers a hand to Virtual Iron refugees
VMware has jumped at the chance to offer Virtual Iron refugees safe passage to join VMware ranks. Go VMware! http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/virtualiron-safepassage.html
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vSphere 4 is GA and I can’t download it
vSphere 4 is now GA and available for download if you are evaluating it. However if you have Support & Service contract for in-line free upgrade of your licenses, your out of luck (or at least this morning when I tried 3 different ways). If I went in and said I wanted to evaluate it, [...]
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vSphere 4 – The Next Great Thing
It’s official. There’s about a zillion blog postings and news articles coming out about the next generation of ESX. In watching the press conference yesterday the one thing that really hit me is that this is the next game changer. Cloud computing has been stuck for years in lock-in approaches. Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, [...]
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Cisco joins the Server Market
Today’s big news: Cisco has come out with a single stop full solution rack for CPU, Disk & Network in one using all the best of virtualization technology of Storage, Server & Networking. Tight VMware integration, all Cisco hardware & lots of virtualization technology at 10G. Over the past several years I’ve kinda figured that [...]
In: Server Virtualization, VMware · Tagged with: cisco, server, Virtualization, VMware
OpenSolaris 2008.11 & ESX (Security Part 2)
If you are using OpenSolaris and NFS for your datastores and using ESX you need to share out your zfs filesystems with anon=0 since ESX wants to write to the NFS datastore as root. zfs set sharenfs=anon=0 usbpool/virtuals I wouldn’t mind having stuff like this if I could figure out how to properly get logging [...]
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Cisco’s now a full service stop
Cisco’s throwing their gloves into the ring for server hardware. Now they can offer Server Hardware, Datacenter Experts (strong in Server Virtualization with their investments into VMware) and Networking Hardware. All they need now is to offer some Storage Virtualization Appliance on their Server Hardware and they can start to offer the whole datacenter in [...]
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: datacenter, hardware, server, VMware