I received a message from Twitter telling me that lasrstr is following my updates. Before I’m following back, I checked out his profile and discovered vmfaq.com. This website is all about frequently asked questions regarding VMware like “I need more performance out of my VMware environment”. Lars Troen from Norwegian also created a nice little tool called vmktree, a free web tool that shows you the graphs of resource usage of VMware ESX Server, VMware Server (on Linux), GSX Server (on Linux) and a few other data center devices (ilo/ilo2/rsa2/ds4000). On VMware Server (and GSX) and ESX 3.x vmktree provides it’s own agent that collects system statistics and does not depend on vmkusage like it does on ESX 2.x. The version for ESX3.x is still in beta and is available for download here.
Friday, December 19. 2008
VMFAQ.com | FAQing about virtualization since 2008
Rich Brambley unwrapped Veeam's holiday gift
Rich Brambley over at VM/ETC did some great research, he found out what Veeam’s Christmas holiday gift will be. It’s Veeam’s Monitor 3.0, a tool for performance monitoring, capacity planning and troubleshooting for your entire VMware Infrastructure Veeam Monitor is an easy to deploy, framework-independent VMware monitoring solution that was created expressly to help you better manage the health and performance of your VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) environment. Veeam Monitor provides support for troubleshooting and issue resolution, as well as trend reporting and capacity planning - equipping you to proactively manage ESX / ESXi infrastructure system health and performance today and over the long term.
Veeam will be unveiling a new free tool is on Dec. 22 – everyone who registers will automatically receive a download link that day via e-mail. This holiday gift is marked “do not open until Dec. 22.”
veeam @rbrambley Veeam does not comment on speculation or rumorsvr, dec 19 15:16:54 from digsby in reply to rbrambley
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Quest completely integrates VMware PS into new version of PowerGUI
• Dynamic Nodes – This allow users to navigate their VMware PowerShell management as if they were using VirtualCenter.
• Support for a broader range of VMware VI Toolkit Cmdlets.
• Integration with the VMware SDK for advanced actions not yet supported by the VMware VI Toolkit.
• Support for the upcoming VMware VI Toolkit 1.5 release.
Thursday, December 18. 2008
VVP enrolment date announcement at the Communities Roundtable
I attended the VMware Communities Roundtable yesterday evening and had a chat with John Troyer about the huge success of the Dutch VMUG event. I wasn’t the only one online. You can also listen to discussions about VMware Mobile and the “Read Only” SDK in the ESX 3i free versions.
Guys like esiebert7625, jasonboche, jonowings, knudt, rick_vmwaretips, sbeaver, alanrenouf, bscheitel, deason_uk, depping, GabesVirtualWorld.com, Maish_SK, Rod Haywood (rodos), stumchugh, Svenh , astorrs, MatthewJohnson and Scott Lowe were also participating in the discussions. John announced the enrolment date of the new VMware Virtualization Professional Program “VVP”. It’s going to happen by the end of this week, the first VVP’ers will be nominated in January.
Wednesday, December 17. 2008
Locked out of vCenter ?
When you’re locked out of your vCenter Server because someone has assigned the “Read-Only” role to the “Domain Users” group and has set the permissions at the highest level, you’re in deep trouble. You can log on to vCenter but can’t change anything because your Administrator account is also a “Domain User”. There are several ways to fix this problem. First of all never use default Windows groups to create VC roles. Second there’s an easy way and a hard way.
The easy way is to shutdown VC and disable authorization checks by adding:
<security>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</security>
within the <config> tags of vpxd.cfg. Start VC and remove the permission, then shut it down and turn security back on again by removing these tags.
The hard way is to open the VC SQL database and open the table : VPX_ACCESS, then add another row :
ID: 1
Principal : Administrators
Role_ID : -1
ENTITY_ID : 1
FLAG : 3
Afterwards you need to restart the vCenter Server services. Credits to Koen Warson and Phil Cohen.