Saturday, June 30. 2007
Install ESX3 without isolating SAN
Dinny Davies has been busy and produced a nice solution for installing ESX3 safely without having to disconnect the server from the SAN.
Wednesday, June 27. 2007
VI3 PatchDownloader 2
The latest follow up to the well received VI3 PatchDownloader tool is now a command line executable meaning that it can be scripted and scheduled as a routine task. Additional functionality means that it is now easier than ever to keep up to date with VMware® ESX patches.
Monday, June 25. 2007
VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide
Scott Herold, Ron Oglesby, and Mike Laverick have finally gotten to a point where they are extremely close to having all first draft writing of the new VI3: Advanced Technical Design Guide completed. They are anticipating that this will be completed and off to editors towards the end of the first week of July.
Tuesday, June 19. 2007
VMware MKS client (step one)
The project to disconnect all the CD’s from all the VM’s with one click of a button is finished so I thought it’s time for a new project. Let’s build a VDI connection broker with an embedded console for the XP VM’s. The first thing I needed to do is figure out how I could embed a console view into my VB application. After some searching in the VMware forums I ended up with one or two posts that weren’t much of a help. I decided to take a closer look at the console that is used in web access. When you logon to web access and select a VM, you can get a console in your Internet Explorer. Let’s find out what happens in the background. Log on to Web Access : https://vcserver/ui
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VCplus Control
Richard Garsthagen over at Run-Virtual.com released another killer app. VCplus is program that adds functionality to your Virtual Center environment! It allows you to see what the actual disk usage is within your Virtual Machines, Easily see if a Virtual Machine has a snapshot and what the size of the snapshot files are and it allows you to sync the VM’s DNS name to the Display Name.
Saturday, June 16. 2007
VMware ESX 3.1 whats new ?
During the TSX event in Nice there was a lot of speculation about new features in the next version of VMware ESX server. Mike Laverick managed squeeze some comments out of Yu-Shen Ng. And the past few weeks more and more news leaked out. Let’s take a look at the rumors and the facts. The release date of version ESX 3.1 will be around the end of October 2007. In this new version there will be better redundancy for iSCSI. Data replication in the kernel and filtering by third party apps will be possible. Besides authentication with AD, LDAP is going to be supported. When you logon to WebAcces there will be more possibility’s like creation of VM’s and controlling the resource pools and clusters. Different CPU family type’s within the Intel brand and connected internal switches are going to be supported in combination with VMotion. And last but not least VCB file level back-up for Linux VM’s.