Scott Surovich created a 3i boot from disk how to. This document covers how to get the 3i USB memory stick image to a hard drive and it boots from the HD. It still needs the memory stick for ONE check the boot does for the USB Boot partition - but the rest is all HD loaded. This allows servers that DO NOT boot from USB devices to use the 3i Beta. He hopes to get that check pulled so you can boot 100% from a HD.
Continue reading "Booting VMware 3i from Hard Drive" »Thursday, September 20. 2007
ESX 3i Shell Commands
Thomas Bishop figured out how to automatically let your ESX 3i server start in the interactive shell mode. Well that’s great but what to do when we are logged in. Do we have the same environment as the service console or are there less or new features? I captured a list of commands you could use in the ESX 3i interactive shell. Have fun with it and use at your own risk.
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When you are going to create you own software and want to connect to the VCserver the MOB is your friend. With the Managed Object Browser (https://server/mob) you have the opportunity to browse trough every object you can address from within the SDK. Since I’m involved in building software (Virtual Machine MKS Client), I was wondering if there are any new objects in the ESX 3i MOB, and there are. I found a lot of new references, but there where two of them who triggered my attention; the FileManager and the VirtualDiskManager. Those two I haven’t noticed before and they seem to deal with files and disks.
Thursday release day
Just days after the VMworld 2007 event a lot of company’s released new versions on their software. Alessandro Perilli over at virtualization.info made a nice roundup.
VMware Workstation 6.0.1
Dunes VS-O Lifecycle 1.0
OpenVZ for Linux kernel 2.6.22
PlateSpin PowerRecon 3.1
Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite 5.9
CiRBA Data Center Intelligence 4.4
Surgient VMLA 5.3
Parallels Desktop 3.0 Feature Update
Wednesday, September 19. 2007
ESX 3i running on a Dell PowerEdge 1950
Viktor van den Berg (the professional photographer) created a nice ESX 3i presentation. It’s in Dutch but if you are not familiar with this language, you should still take a look at the really nice screenshot’s. Viktor posted the article on the Dutch Vmug.
ESX 3i Interactive Shell
Thomas Bishop AKA Tommy over at "Scale The Mind" created two real cool YouTube videos. On the first one he shows ESX 3i running within VMware Fusion. The second one shows the ESX 3i interactive shell. Thomas and I are running parallel with the discovery of new ESX 3i features, we both found out how to run ESX 3i in a virtual machine and we also discovered some of the additional commands you could use during the bootstrap. Thomas about the interactive shell : "The fact that it is possible to easily get an interactive shell with ESX 3i is going to prove to be a valuable resource in learning about the internals of it. It looks like it is heavily dependent on a number of open source packages (no surprise there)". J Hicks joked about all the ESX 3i information and stated that we have ESX 3i running on an iPhone in no time. ;-)