Thursday, January 27. 2011
Dazed and confused but trying to continue
It seems to be an ‘nmi-error’ found in the linux kernel at: 2.6.26-1-686/arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c (Debian Lenny)
Wednesday, January 26. 2011
vRanger Backup & Replication 5 - What is new
• vReplicator integration
o vRanger Pro customers get replication at no additional cost
o Shared advanced resource scheduler to minimize backup and replication window
• Linux File Level Restore
o Restore single files or folders
• Cataloging
o Search files across all your savepoints, simplifies and make File Level Restore procedure much faster
• Fibre restore
o Restore your images over fibre
o Faster and LAN-free
• Repository support for NFS and FTP
o Additional protocol support to existing CIFS and SFTP
• vRanger PowerPack
o Manage vRanger with PowerShell in PowerGUI
o Does not require any PowerShell skills as it´s provided in the PowerPack
o Allows you to do things not possible to do in the product
• Bugfixes
Top 20 vCenter Performance Metrics to Care About
With virtualization come management challenges. Now that applications compete for shared, dynamic infrastructure resources such as storage, memory, and CPU, an inevitable resource allocation problem arises, that if not addressed will impact the performance of both VMs and their associated applications. This presentation discusses the 20 metrics that truly matter in vCenter to evaluate and manage this situation.
Watch this video to learn
- Which VMware metrics you should care about and why you can't ignore them.
- How they reveal issues that impact application performance.
- Ways to further analyze the data provided to fix issues and improve performance in your data center.
Tuesday, January 25. 2011
New VCP4 Store - Merchandise for VMware Certified Professionals
http://mylearn.vmware.com/register.cfm?course=85823
There's also a VCP LinkedIn group which you can join. Members of this group have gained the in-depth skills and industry-recognized certification on VMware technology. The VMware Certified Professional Program is designed for everyone who wants to demonstrate their expertise in virtual infrastructure and increase his potential for career advancement. If you are a VCP you can join this group.
If you don’t know what a LinkedIn group is, here is a short explanation : Many professionals advance their careers and business goals by counting on industry and professional groups, alumni organizations, industry conferences and corporate alumni groups to help them make vital new business contacts. The VMware LinkedIn Groups offers extra features stay in touch with one another and discover powerful new business contacts within their groups and beyond.
Saturday, January 22. 2011
Rob de Veij has released RVTools version 3.0
RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX 3.5, ESX3i, ESX4i and vSphere 4 RVTools is able to list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, nics, datastores, service console, VM Kernel, switches, ports and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to list the current version of the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine. and update them to the latest version.
http://www.robware.net/
Pass-through authentication implemented. Allows you to use your logged on
Windows credentials to automatically logon.
All numeric columns are now formated to make it more readable.
On vInfo the columns Commited, Uncommited, Shared and on vSnapshot the
column size are now formated in MBs instead of bytes.
New tabpage created with service console and VMKernel information.
Now using vSphere Web Services SDK 4.1 which supports the new features
available in vSphere 4.1
Export to csv file now uses Windows regional separator
using NPOI to make it possible to write directly to xls files without the need for a
installed Excel version on the system.
New menu function to write all information to one excel workbook with for each
tabpage a new worksheet.
new command line options. Check the documentation!