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vCenter Orchestrator help

Andy Archer — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:15:17 +0000

I’ve had quite a hard time recently getting to know vCenter Orchestrator, part of vSphere from VMware.

What made it so difficult was the lack of clear information about getting the product configured, everything I read made a lot of assumptions about what you may or may not understand about the product, or how . . . → Read More: vCenter Orchestrator help

vSphere memory definitions, Consumed, Active and Granted

Andy Archer — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:32:49 +0000

I was asked for a clear definition of Consumed, Active and Granted memory statistics for VMs in a vCenter performance charts, I was a bit lost for words so research ensued.

Active is the memory recently accessed by the guest OS in the VM.

Granted – is the amount of RAM that the VMkernel . . . → Read More: vSphere memory definitions, Consumed, Active and Granted

My XenClient journey

Andy Archer — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:28:14 +0000

Well, it begins here, the hardware has arrived.

I’ve bought a Dell Optiplex 990 Desktop, i5-2500 (I couldnt see anything better with the i7 except hyperthreading), 16GB RAM and a 1TB disk.

Plan is to import my existing Vista Ultimate SP2 desktop, have a big VM for my development (might even try installing VMware . . . → Read More: My XenClient journey

Guest OS Customisation for Linux OSs using PowerCLI

Andy Archer — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:52:43 +0000

I have not yet found it obvious from the VMware PowerCLI documentation what constitutes a Linux guest OS specification, if you put the wrong combination of parameters you get an unhelpful error telling you that you have parameters from the wrong set but not what they are, so here is what I have found. . . . → Read More: Guest OS Customisation for Linux OSs using PowerCLI

PowerCLI and Technical Support Mode in ESXi v4.1

Andy Archer — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:28:15 +0000

In previous versions of ESXi you would manage Technical Support Mode by modifying properties of the advanced setting ‘VMkernel.Boot.techSupportMode’. Now both local and remote, are elevated to services and as such can be managed using the Get-VMHostService and Set-VMHostService cmdlets.

The Get-VMHostService cmdlet will, by default, return;

So, to change aspects of one . . . → Read More: PowerCLI and Technical Support Mode in ESXi v4.1

Looks like I’ll be buying a new laptop!

Andy Archer — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:48:33 +0000

With the announcement of the release of XenClient I want to be able to get to know, and use, a client hypervisor.

I know that there have been warnings about the haste with which Citrix have ploughed on with the release but I want to try it, I want on the beta unfortunately. . . . → Read More: Looks like I’ll be buying a new laptop!

ESX 3 Help links

Andy Archer — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:24:52 +0000

ESX3 Command Line Help

Select from the following commands

esxcfg-advcfg – VMware ESX Server Advanced Configuration Option Tool esxcfg-auth – VMware ESX Server Network Management Utility esxcfg-dumppart – VMware ESX Server diagnostic partition configuration tool esxcfg-firewall – VMware ESX Server Firewall Configuration Tool esxcfg-info – VMware ESX Server Info tool esxcfg-module – VMware ESX . . . → Read More: ESX 3 Help links

AVArcher and Application Oriented Virtualisation

Andy Archer — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:07:13 +0000

For several years AVArcher have been providing consultancy and education services based around the VMware and Citrix product line. It has now become quite clear that the server consolidation aspect of server virtualisation has successfully been reduced to practice and we have decided to start to look at the application of virtualisation technologies . . . → Read More: AVArcher and Application Oriented Virtualisation