In this How-To Video Series, Hyper9's own Zahid Ghauri walks the user through the search process in the Hyper9 product. The search language itself is a simple, yet powerful syntax that allows the VI Admin to create multi-clause, proper name and/or key word based search queries. You can do something as simple as "VM" or a phrase like "Microsoft Exhange". Multiple terms can also be combined to form more complicated queries. Watch this video for a step-by-step guide to start learning about all of the powerful queries you can perform in the Hyper9 product.
Friday, April 17. 2009
StorMagic SvSAN Demo
Many users are looking for ways to maximize their investment and want to leverage the advanced features available in ESX, but cant do so without making a significant investment in a shared storage system. Why spend thousands of dollars when you can leverage the internal storage available in your ESX server?
VMware users deserve a more flexible, robust and cost effective shared storage solution for their virtual server environment. Shared storage systems are needed in order to leverage the real benefits of ESX (such as VMotion), but are often seen as out of reach, too complicated or too expensive for mid-sized organizations. Until now!
Wednesday, April 15. 2009
The Message of the Day is...
H9Labs discovered a bug in VirtualCenter which causes attached VI clients to display the VMware Message of the Day over and over and over again. Not waiting for VMware to fix the bug, H9Labs has released their own patch. Read more about this issue and download the patch at H9Labs.
Here at H9Labs we're always busy creating the next "it" thing for virtualization, but never too busy to listen to our customers. Well, one of customers notified us that the H9Labs GuessMyOS and Search Bar plug-ins were causing the Message of the Day (MOTD) to appear with an annoying frequency in the VI client. In fact, the MOTD was appearing in *ALL* attached VI clients. And not just when the administrators were logging into the VI client, but over and over and over again. For no apparent reason.
Saturday, April 11. 2009
Using SCVMM to manage VMware, playing with fire!
Use caution when experimenting with the SCVMM and VMware, here are five reasons why you don’t’ want to use Microsoft’s SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager) for managing VMware Infrastructure.
SCVMM Displays Very Little VM and Guest OS Information
The VI Client presents useful information to VMware Infrastructure 3 administrators, such as guest OS IP address, hostname, and performance history. The SCVMM console does not offer any of this information, instead relying on integration with additional complex systems.
SCVMM Creates Unnecessary Port Groups on ESX vSwitches
When managing VMware ESX virtual machine networks, SCVMM exposes only vSwitches and not port groups. SCVMM then creates new port groups on every ESX vSwitch in the environment—duplicating existing functionality and increasing management costs and complexity.
SCVMM Imposes Artificial Constraints on VMware Infrastructure 3 Resources
SCVMM prevents migration and cloning of virtual machines that vCenter would otherwise allow. Managing VMware Infrastructure 3 with SCVMM compromises powerful features that make VMware ESX the more efficient virtualization platform.
SCVMM Provisioning Defaults Unsuitable for VMware ESX Virtual Machines
Microsoft advertises the ability to provision new VMware ESX virtual machines with SCVMM. In reality, SCVMM ignores advanced ESX capabilities and hypervisor platform differences, so the VMs it creates require numerous manual configuration adjustments to make them compatible with ESX.
SCVMM Destroys VMware Infrastructure 3 Templates During Import
Use caution when experimenting with the SCVMM capability to import VMware Infrastructure 3 templates. SCVMM will try to establish a foothold in your management environment by deleting the original templates from ESX datastores without any advance warning.
Thursday, April 9. 2009
Veeam has released version 4.5 of nworks products
Sunday, April 5. 2009
Sapien’s PrimalPad, a free single exe file editor
Another free editor I reguly use is Notepad++ Portable, version 5.3.1 has been released recently. It's the handy Notepad++ text editor packaged as a portable app so you can do your development on the go. It has all the same great features of Notepad++ including support for multiple languages and an extensive plugin system, but there's nothing to install. This release updates Notepad++ to 5.3.1 and fixes portablization of settings. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.