Whats new in 1.1
- Read and Refresh the Data automatic every x Minutes.
- Sort the Columns.
- Store the Data in a MS-Access DB.
- DatabaseView with Graphical Diagrams for the logical Partitions (You can See now the History from used and unused Spaces) and see what Storage the VM REALLY Needed.
- DatabaseView with Graphical Diagrams for the Memory Usage (You can See now the History from used and unused Memory) and see what Memory the VM REALLY Needed.
- DatabaseView with Graphical Diagrams for the CPU Usage (You can See now the History from used and unused CPU) and see what CPU the VM REALLY Needed.
- In all Graphical Diagrams you can Zoom in and Out in the History (also print the diagram).
You can Download it for free at www.mightycare.de.
Friday, September 12. 2008
New Version StorageView 1.1
Wednesday, September 10. 2008
VKernel Modeler Virtual Appliance To Be Previewed at VMworld
Modeler can help you validate proposed changes to your VMware environment to protect its integrity and mitigate the unintended consequences that change can produce. Modeler snapshots real world data from your VMware environment so that you can analyze, simulate, and safely validate proposed changes before you deploy them into your production environment. Examples of change include the following:
• Deploying New VMs
• Moving VMs
• Adding or Removing Hosts, Memory, Storage
• Creating and Resizing Resource Pools
• Creating and Resizing Clusters
• Changing Configurations in VMs, Hosts, Clusters, Resource Pools
Writing Applications with the VirtualCenter Database
Rob Zylowski created an impressive document about pulling VI3 information from the Virtual Center database. This document was meant to be a chapter in the new VI3 Book but was skipped due to the size of the new book. You can download it for free at VMGuru.com.
Rob Zylowski:
Ok, so you purchased VirtualCenter knowing that it would help you manage the new critical environment that you were setting up. You were sold on the many benefits that VirtualCenter had to offer. You installed it and use it every day because it really is a great way to manage your virtual environment. One of the best things about VirtualCenter is that VMware has made it very easy to integrate with. There are API’s that will allow you to automate tasks that are not already automated with the standard product offerings. There is also an excellent database that you can use to create reports to help you manage the VI infrastructure in much better ways.
Tuesday, September 9. 2008
VMware Studio
VMware Studio offers software developers and hardware appliance vendors an easy-to-use virtual appliance authoring tool to create, customize, manage, distribute, and deploy production-ready virtual appliances. VMware Studio leverages the industry's leading virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure (VI), and offers built appliances all the management services that VI offers. VMware Studio is free of charge and delivers:
- A Web Console with appliance templates
- Virtual Appliance customization and build engine
- Update repository creation and publication
- Build process automation using CLI
- Open Virtualization Format (OVF) support
- Integration with VMware Infrastructure
- Integration with third-party management software
Wednesday, September 3. 2008
SearchMyVM, a free “Google-like” search utility
Alex Bakman over at VKernel announced the release of SearchMyVM, a free “Google-like” search utility to help you quickly find information within rapidly expanding VMware ESX environments. As dynamic virtual environments continue to rapidly grow in size and scope, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find even the most basic information within VMware infrastructures. SearchMyVM instantly deploys exactly like each one of VKernel’s virtual appliances. With a “Google-like” search interface, you can find virtual machines, hosts, clusters, storage, resource pools, files, snapshots, VMware tools, applications and configuration information. Over 75 different types of attributes are fully indexed and available for you to search.
Monday, September 1. 2008
ESX 3.5 bug | 128 character masking limit
There's a bug when upgrading from ESX 3.0 to ESX 3.5. This bug has to do with Lunmasking. When performing the following mask command:
/adv/Disk/MaskLUNs =
vmhba2:1:19,20,36,37,38,39,40,41,48,49,50,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96;vmhba2:2:19,20,36,37,38,39,40,41,48,49,50,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96;vmhba4:1:19,20,36,37,38,39,40,41,48,49,50,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96;vmhba4:2:19,20,36,37,38,39,40,41,48,49,50,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96;"
This should mask all the luns, what you effectively get is:
/adv/Disk/MaskLUNs =
"vmhba2:1:19,20,36,37,38,39,40,41,48,49,50,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96;vmhba2:2:19,20,36,37,38,39,40,41,48,49,50,89,90,91,92,93,94,9
This means there is a restriction in the amount of characters that can be set in 3.5 for masking luns.