Posts under ‘VMware’

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As you might know, I was asked to co-author a PowerCLI book. Now that the book is nearly finished we posted an update on our book’s website at www.powerclibook.com.  If you’re interested in what will be covered in the upcoming book called “VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration” (Yes, I know it’s a mouth [...]

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As a security recommendation you should always disable Tech Support Mode (TSM) on your ESXi servers, but sometimes it’s helpful if you’re able to connect to your ESXi server using Secure Shell (SSH). When you want to enable TSM, you have 3 options: 

Use the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
Use the vSphere Client
Script it (using PowerCLI [...]

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The storage network administrator drew my attention to the Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter.
Brocade Network Advisor
Brocade Network Advisor provides a unified network management solution across Brocade Fibre Channel SANs, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Layer 2/3 IP switches and routers, Wireless, Layer 4/7 Application Delivery networks and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) [...]

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During VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen I had the opportunity to have a glimpse of the VMware vCloud Director (vCD). While back in 2009 VMware was only still introducing the foundation for cloud computing by releasing vSphere 4, now just one year later, they actually did it and provide the software to actually enable cloud [...]

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Last Monday, Eric Siebert published the results of the Top25 VMware Virtualization Bloggers survey. Also watch the vChat episode 8 where the Top25 is announced.
Big Congrats to all of you who made it into the Top25. Great Job!
While the previous vote back in January 2010 had a total of 66 blogs, there were now 115 [...]

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Whenever you need to install a new box with ESX, there’s the struggle with matching physical ports to VMware devices. Which network adapter becomes vmnic0?, Which hostbus adapter becomes vmhba1?, etc. Especially when you have a lot of network adapters this can be confusing and you can’t connect to the device over the network unless you [...]

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Watching the twittersphere for vExpert announcements, I was intrigued by the need for people to be on a list. A lot of people contacted me that they were missing from the vExpert twitter avatar list on my vExpert 2010 post. I also saw many people ask Maish Saidel-Keesing to include them on his VMware vExpert [...]

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Today I woke up and found out that I was rewarded as a VMware vExpert 2010. I’m deeply honored to be designated for this award and to become part of this selected group of great minds. I want to thank VMware and the vExpert judges for selecting me. A special Thank You goes to John Troyer, the [...]

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Before upgrading my Virtual Center 2.5 server to vCenter Server 4.0, I decided to temporarily disable HA and DRS. This is just a precaution taken to avoid waiting for cluster reconfigurations right after the upgrade. Because I hate doing things more than once by hand, I used PowerCLI for this.
Although no rocket science you can use the [...]

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In my post Unattended upgrade of HP mgmt agents – Part 2 you could read about my script for an unattended installation of the HP Management agents on ESX3.5. In this part I’ll share my next version of the script for installing the HP Management agents on ESX4.0 and ESX4.0 U1.
In the ESX4 installation, the location of [...]