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27
Sep

View logs on VMware ESXi servers

Now we know ESXi is the way to go we need to start to trancition all our ESX servers to ESXi. This is said quicker then done. During a certain period we have build a lot of experiance managing these ESX servers. On of the biggest changes is that there is no more Service Console to login to to watch (using tail / less / more) the log files.

There are now some other possibilities to watch your log files.

  • Via the DCUI (Consolee of the ESXi). Press F2 (and the password to get to the different options

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Log files via ESXi webpage.

  • Using the vSphere Client direct to the ESXi

Log files in vSphere Client Direct tot ESXi

  • Using the vSphere client connected to the vCenter and then select the ESXi server you want to export logs from.

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  • Export the logs using PowerCLI using the cmdlet get-log
1
Sep

BC8372 – SRM Futures and more

VMware is working on a new SRM version in the labs.  if you want to know more on SRM goto VMware SRM

I will give you here some product higlights (can change because product is still in devellopment.

* both sites (protected and recovery) are visible in 1 interface.  Communication will be encrypted between sites.  Certificates can be used.

* Array Managers for both sites can be configured from within one SRM UI.  There will be tight integration towards storage.

* SRA interface will be available for each adapter.  This will give you a overview of the arrays.

* Array Diagnostics is available to have an overview on storage connections

* Protection groups can be organized in folders

* Protection groups are available for both sites.  This to enable failback.

* Protection groups will give of status of individual VM’s.

* Recovery plans are available for both sites to support failback.

* Quick summary for recovery plan and last operation.

* VM startup order can be set in recovery plann

* You can create VM dependencies. Can also start scripts before and after a VM poweron

* IP Custimazation can now be set in VM configuration.  You can set een ip config for protected and recovery site.

* Also IPv6 support.

* Possible to do a planned failover. This will assure no data loss dureing migration.  This is possible because of tight integration with storage.

* Dashboard will show evolution of the failover on VM level.

* after a failover a Reprotect can be done so a failback can be done without losing data.  SRM will tell to the storage to start replication the the other way.  A status can be follwoed.

Looking at all these new features, we can hope this version is launched very soon?? 

Nice work VMware, go on.

30
Aug

VMWorld2010 : Awsome lab setup

Hi,

here my first blog from VMWorld 2010 San Francisco. 

At Sunday before the conference started I had the opportunity to have a look at the Lab room?  Duncan Epping has written a nice article about the Lab Rome located in Moscone West.  Have a look here http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/08/29/vmworld-2010-labs-are-the-place-to-be

Here some facts on the lab:

  • A in house written tool called “LabCloud” will be used to manage everything.
  • LabCloud uses 12 labmanager environments and some vCenters to provision a lot of vm’s.
  • There will be about 30 labs available The lab list
  • 480 concurrent sessions can be done.
  • about 5000 vm’s each hour will be reprovisioned
  • the lab is open for a total of 40 hours
  • predictions are that at the end more the 70k vm’s will be provisiond during this week.
  • Lab is based on a hybrid cloud, 1 datacenter local and 2 in external datacenters
  • Paperless office approach, 2 screens, 1 to do the lab, 1 with the lab manual. And evaluations will be online.

If you are in San francisco, you have to labs to get some handson.

If you are not in SF and you come to VMworld EMEA, you can see the same setup over there (only not that many places)

Hope you will enjoy.

Gert

28
Aug

VMworld 2010 San Francisco

trip to San Francisco

24
Aug

VMware Fastrack

Teaching VMware Fasttrack

26
Jul

Hello world!

Hi all,

Here my first blog.  I am gonna try to make some more blogs in the near future.  These blog mostly will go about virtualization using VMware products.

To introduce myself  look at the about page.

Hope I will you will enjoy my blogging.

Greetings

gert

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