This week I’m delivering the famous VMware Install and Configure course at XTG in the Netherlands. At the end of the third day it’s time for VMotion. Three ESX servers are added to one Virtual Center server and the students have the task to make all their virtual machines VMotion compatible. I took this opportunity to upload the Replicate Technologies Datacenter Analyzer virtual appliances. After uploading I converted the Probe appliance to a template and used the Internet Explorer to logon to the RDA Controller virtual machine. Just had to configure the Virtual Center server address and user credentials, after that you’re ready to go. Update your analyses and kick off the probe deployment and the possible errors in your environment are presented at the Dashboard. In my classroom there was an issue with one of the virtual machines. This machine functions as a router and is booted from a floppy. Besides that it’s connected to an internal only virtual switch. Definitely some show stoppers for VMotion. One of the virtual machines had CPU affinity, RDA didn’t report the affinity setting, I posted a feature request at the forum. In the screen dumps you can see my findings. To conclude: easy setup, fast results, RDA rocks.
