By admin | April 17, 2008
Even with VMware Consolidated Backup and the release of VMware Site Recovery Manager around the corner, there is still a (gaping) hole left by these 2 products – the ability to failover a single guest to a regularly sync’ed and otherwise offline DR partner. In the physical world there were 2 main reasons to invoke [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Backup, Database, DR, Veeam |
By admin | April 13, 2008
Well what can I say… the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days – they’re back! Once again, the VirtualCenter upgrade process is the equivalent of a full uninstall and reinstall. Someone better let the developers of the VMware management tools suite (or at least whoever writes the installers) that VMware are supposed to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Philosophy, VirtualCenter, VMware |
It turns out that it was staring me in the face all along… there’s a new method mentioned right inderneath the standard Login() method in the online VMware API reference, called LoginBySSPI(). But using it isn’t quite as straight forward as replacing Login() with LoginBySSPI() on it’s own… you first need to grab a security [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged SDK, VMware |
By admin | February 28, 2008
At last! VMware have finally added passthrough auth support in VC 2.5, although it is currently classed as experimental. This is something I have been waiting / asking about for quite some time. And even better, it’s on by default! To use it, simply add -passthroughAuth -s vchostname to the end of the shortcut used [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged VirtualCenter, VMware |
By admin | February 6, 2008
I’m always being foiled by the boot screen of a VM, even with a VI 2.5 client pointing directly at an ESX 3.5 host, the BIOS splash screen goes by way too fast for me to change the boot order. Adding the following to the vmx file of the box sorts it out though bios.bootDelay [...]
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By admin | January 31, 2008
My quest for statelessness went one step further today, when I seemingly PXE booted ESX 3i. I say seemingly because I didn’t actually run up any VM’s on it – I did however join it to VirtualCenter, create a vSwitch and browsed it’s datastore, so it’s all looking pretty promising. I’m not suggesting that such [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged ESXi, VMware |
By admin | January 7, 2008
In this video I show a semi-distributed VirtualCenter install (ie database is not local) using the command in the earlier post, and go through the database setup as well. I am by no means a DBA, so no doubt there is more that can be done to tune the database than what I show in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Database, VirtualCenter, VMware |
