VKernel has released its Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer virtual appliance, and they are offering a FREE 14-day trial in your own data center. Everyone implementing virtualization is — or will be — challenged by capacity bottlenecks. To maintain optimal performance in your VMware ESX environment, you really should give the Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer a try. You'll quickly be able to:
• Find current capacity bottlenecks (CPU, memory, and storage).
• Predict future capacity bottlenecks — e.g., you will experience a memory bottleneck in cluster X in 7 days.
• See exactly how many more virtual machines can fit into any of your hosts, clusters, or resource pools.
The trial is free, deployment is instant, and you'll have 2 full weeks to put it to work. Why not download the trial right now ?
Wednesday, June 18. 2008
Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer virtual appliance released
Tuesday, June 17. 2008
Sanbarrow's VMware-liveCD
Ulli Hankeln over at Sanbarrow created a new version of the VMware-liveCD this version contains:
-Workstation 6.0.2 ripped
-Converter 3.0.3 cold clone mode
-ViClient for ESX 3.5.0 u1
-RemoteCli
-Virtual Disk Developement Kit
-ViToolkit for Powershell
The complete build is about 450 MB - it requires a box with at least 512 MB RAM to load the dotnet2 apps. Latest MOA 2.3.-011 now allows to run ESX 35i in WS 6.5. beta 91182. In this case the ESX 35i is running from the LiveCD - you can of course mount any local VMFS-volumes and assign them to the ESX 35i. Obviously you need a fat machine to run this LiveCD Of course it still works as a simple Cold Clone CD .
Monday, June 16. 2008
vmCDConnected at the 9th palce in the Top 10 free tools
Eric Siebert over at VMware-Land has put together a new Top 10 list featuring the Top 10 free tools that should be in every VMware administrator's toolkit. My little vmCDConnected app is on the 9th place. After a lot of late hours of coding I finally can release the vmCDConnected application. What’s so special about this application ? Well it scans all the Virtual Machines and shows if they have a CD connected to it. After scanning the VM’s you can disconnect all the CD’s with a click of a button. Why do we need it ? Imagine you have a DRS cluster with 80 VM’s, when one of those VM’s is connected to a CD it will stay on the same ESX server because V-Motion doesn’t work in combination with a connected CD.
9) VMCdConnected - http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/172-Software.html
• Scans all Virtual Machines and shows if they have a CD connected to it. After scanning the VM’s you can disconnect all the CD’s with a click of a button.
Version 1.0 of the SVMotion has been released
Version 1.0 of the SVMotion has been released at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip-svmotion/. New features include:
- No longer counts RDM files against datastore size, fixing the bug that plagued the last version.
- SVMotion operations against templates are not supported since VMware does not support them.
- Added tool tips that explain why a relocation cannot take place
- All SVMotion events write out a log, enabling better understanding of what went wrong in case of an error.
- Aside from the library that loads the plug-in, all of VMware's internal code has been replaced with the VI Toolkit for .NET.
- The project is now supported by almost 20 unit tests, helping to ensure fewer bugs and greater stability.
- The unit tests can be expanded to include testing for a system-resource supported number of servers since they use mock testing designed to work with the VI Toolkit for .NET.
- The project is now built using NAnt, which allows nightly builds of the source, creates distributions, and builds the MSI installer.
Sunday, June 15. 2008
VMotion Info in Excel 2007
Wednesday, June 11. 2008
VMware Stage Manager Now Available
VMware Stage Manager, a break-through product for delivering applications from staging to production is now generally available. VMware Stage Manager solves the problem of server sprawl, configuration drift, and repetitive system testing in pre-production by running IT services and business applications as virtual machine configurations that can be easily transitioned through the release process. VMware Stage Manager allows IT to roll out new and updated applications into production more quickly, avoid the risk of unplanned downtime, and accelerate change requests to production systems.
VMware Stage Manager is available for VMware Infrastructure 3 Standard or Enterprise and can be purchased as part of the VMware Management and Automation and IT Service Delivery bundles, or a-la-carte.