You can prevent the ESX/ESXi host from accessing storage devices or LUNs or from using individual paths to a LUN. Use the vSphere CLI commands to mask the paths. When you mask paths, you create claim rules that assign the MASK_PATH plugin to the specified paths. Via Kevin Kress the master of VMkernel and Console Config and esxcfg-* tools.
Continue reading "How to Mask Paths in vSphere" »Thursday, June 25. 2009
PowerWF + PowerCLI = vSphere on Rails
Organizations are increasingly looking to automate administrators' daily lives. Microsoft and VMware responded with two key technologies: Windows PowerShell, which has become the preferred scripting language for Windows administrators, and VMware’s PowerCLI which provides a Windows PowerShell interface to the vSphere API. vSphere PowerCLI includes PowerShell Cmdlets, and documentation for administering vSphere components.
PowerWF combines both technologies into a single easy-to-use product that replaces legacy batch files, scripts and custom application development, enabling you to completely automate your vSphere environment without writing a single line of code. I created a little one minute Jing demo -how to build a PowerCLI Work Flow with PowerWF.
Continue reading "PowerWF + PowerCLI = vSphere on Rails" »PHD Virtual's Patch Downloader v6.0
PHD Virtual Technologies announced the availability of Patch Downloader version 6.0, a new freeware solution to simplify patch downloading for various VMware ESX versions. Patch Downloader is the fifth free virtualization utility to be offered by PHD Virtual as part of its longstanding commitment to the virtualization community.
The purpose of Patch Downloader is to ease the pain of downloading patches for various ESX versions from the VMware site by automating it. If a user does not want to or cannot use Update Manager (doesn't have a license, no internet access from the ESX/VC hosts) they need to download the patches manually from the VMware website through a Java Download manager. It's easy to miss a patch, and painfully slow to find and select the ones you want. These downloaded patches go on an HTTP or FTP repository, or are copied direct to each host over SSH, and the esxupdate utility is used to patch the ESX host.
http://www.phdvirtual.com/download?task=view.download&cid=18
Tuesday, June 23. 2009
Please welcome Nava Davuluri to the Blogosphere
Nava Davuluri is a new hire into VMware's Product Marketing and he’s going to manage the sample code arena for developers and system administrators that make up the majority of VMware developer community. His biggest goal is to make our life easier by creating a community based sample code site where it will be easy to create, collect and share sample codes in one single straight forward page. This community page is called CodeCentral.
The VMware Code Central Blog is intended for VMware community developers and system administrators who use VMware infrastructure and would like to have IT control through automation.
Video | Running VMware ESXi 4 / vSphere in Workstation
Saturday, June 20. 2009
VMware Developer Day
This year’s VMworld will last four full days instead of three. At Monday August 31th VMware will organize their first developer day. You get a chance to learn about VMware developer products from the engineers who built them. This one-day event will include seminars ranging from the vSphere SDKs to the vCloud API.
- New features of vSphere SDK 4.0
- vSphere Web Services SDK 4.0 Best Practices
- vSphere API Performance Monitoring
- vStorage API - Virtual Disk Development Kit
- Orchestrator API
- VIX API
- VMware Studio
- Developer productivity tools, Record/Replay...