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Re: Maximums for Virtual Infrastructure 3

rbrambley — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:08:58 -0000

Thanks JIm. What mountain is your datacenter on top of ? :)

Re: Whatâ€™s new in ESX 3.5 & VC 2.5? (part 4)

rbrambley — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:03:55 -0000

Great series of posts! Thanks for the opportunity to read about and see the VI3.5 "experience" a little early.

Re: Whatâ€™s new in ESX 3.5 & VC 2.5? (part 4)

rbrambley — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:03:55 -0000

Great series of posts! Thanks for the opportunity to read about and see the VI3.5 "experience" a little early.

Re: Should Virtual Center run as a Virtual Machine?

rbrambley — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:06:48 -0000

Just to clarify, I am all for virtualizing DCs, DNS, WINS, DHCP, etc., but I also like to have at least one physical server providing these services as well. Maybe it is a worst case scenario strategy, but it's my personal comfort level.

Re: VCB backs up everything but the vmdk files

rbrambley — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:13:31 -0000

Thanks Duncan. This is a great way to work around the limitation of VCB not providing the option to select which disks you want to back up.

Re: Configure NTP on ESX

rbrambley — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:45:02 -0000

Kevin,

I updated the link in step 1.

If the link still does not work then click the Files Page link just under the header at the top of the site.

Re: Storage VMotion the easy way

rbrambley — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:41:52 -0000

Correction to my last comment - the "|more" command does work. It was a user issue .... I was able to svmotion a 30 gb vm in about 20 mins. Very nice! I will have to try multiple VMs by using multiple sessions at a later time.

NOTE - The status of the svmotion can be watched at the bottom of the VIClient in the Recent Tasks panel.

Re: Script to clean up Virtual Center database

rbrambley — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:30:14 -0000

Scott,

Unfortunately, I am not sure. I never got to see the diagnostic messages after the client's DBA ran the script. I know the original VC2 database was around 7GB, and then I was told the SQL server had over 25GB of free space. They ran the script and cleaned up some other databases on the server. The next chance I get to use the script I will try to capture the results.

Re: Best Practices for ESX Host Partitions

rbrambley — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:49:32 -0000

David,

Personally, I use /tmp to transfer files to and from ESX. Patches, upgrades, scripts, and of course the target of script and program output.

Since the max size console ram is 800 mb, and swap should be 2x the console ram, there is never a need to increase swap more than 1600 mb.

Re: Best Practices for ESX Host Partitions

rbrambley — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:51:34 -0000

Ivo,

According to VMware, specifically HA logging still uses the /opt partition. Honestly, I have not checked what is there. I will have to do that ...

Re: Citrix Acquires XenSource – Still Scratching My Head

rbrambley — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:49:44 -0000

Hey Mike, I guess sometimes "a little truth" hurts. These anonymous commentors were probably Patriot fans too.

Re: Citrix Acquires XenSource – Still Scratching My Head

rbrambley — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:55:53 -0000

I wanted to clarify my last comment. The truth hurts those who do not want to hear it. Keep up the personal opinion posts. More so than most, you truly have the resources and experience to set the record straight.

Re: Designing ESX Resource Pools

rbrambley — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:38:59 -0000

Terry,

All of your comments / questions are correct.

Yes, use 0 reservations and make sure the unlimited box is checked for all resource pools in the tug of war design.

Yes, when you add VMs to any pool they inherit the settings. If 2 guests battle over the same resource, say one is in the HIGH pool and the other is in the NORMAL pool, then the VM in the HIGH pool gets priority to the resource.

Re: Designing ESX Resource Pools

rbrambley — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:33:07 -0000

Clive,

Thanks for asking this. It made me realize I should be a little more clear about the pizza design. I will update the Pizza Design section to point out the use of the remaining CPU.

Re: Failed to deploy template: The virtual disk is either corrupted or not a supported format

rbrambley — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:36:51 -0000

After contacting Brian I found out we are talking about the same customer's issue. I also got an update from the customer, and the error did not go away completely like previously reported. I am updating the post to reflect the customer's status with this issue.

Re: ESX home lab hardware shopping list

rbrambley — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:32:45 -0000

Duane,

True, this post is about the hardware only.

You do have the option of running VI3 for 60 days in eval mode. https://www.vmware.com/tryv...

Re: Tricks for getting a VM to boot from CD – bios.bootDelay

rbrambley — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:02:56 -0000

Thanks Kyle. I did know that the setting was now configurable from the VI Client.

I was also told about a VMware Communities thread that talks about copying the nvram file (the VM BIOS) from a VM folder that is already configured to boot from CD first.
Go to http://communities.vmware.c... to read the thread tilted "BIOS Splash screen too fast to catch". I've personally never tried that method, but it makes sense that it would work ... all VM's BIOS are the same.

Re: VCB in a Virtual Machine and other product enhancements

rbrambley — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:07:28 -0000

Matthew,

Yes, you can now install VCB in a VM and do live backups of other VMs that are running on storage the the VCB VM can access. Clear as mud?

Re: XenServer integrates everRun VM for HA features

rbrambley — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:18:15 -0000

Several other posts and articles this week about everRun VM. Check a few of them out for more info:
http://searchservervirtuali...
http://tarrysingh.blogspot....
http://tarrysingh.blogspot....

Re: VMware Infrastructure licensing available for 1 CPU servers

rbrambley — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:15:04 -0000

more info provided at http://www.xanalisys.com/Vi...

This post references a Q&A that states

"What servers can support 1-CPU deployment of VI?
A: Today, the ESX HCL for single-CPU servers is fairly limited. To address this gap, there's an initiative in progress to expand the HCL. We have recently certified a number of dual-socket servers that are only populated with one processor - to see these servers, search for "single socket" in the HCL (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/v.... The next phase of certification will include native single-socket servers. "

Re: Planning ESX host capacity

rbrambley — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:53:46 -0000

Lukas,

Thanks! Also, I fixed the link.

Re: ESX 3.5 features announced!

rbrambley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:06:21 -0000

adz,

No. ESX 3.5 is only compatible with VC 2.5. You can find the full compatibility of all products using the VMware infrastructure compatibility matrix .pdf available at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/v...

Re: ESX cheat sheet – vmreference.com

rbrambley — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:49:03 -0000

I fixed the broken link to the ver 0.9 card in the original post. As Forbes points out, go to http://www.vmreference.com for the latest version.

I also have the latest version linked at http://vmetc.com/2008/04/15...

Re: Design a clustered VM application that can fully leverage VMotion, DRS, and HA?

rbrambley — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:43:03 -0000

fixed link to image in post.

Re: Manually adjust ESX local time

rbrambley — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:20:50 -0000

Paul,

I will defintely try using the much simpler syntax next chance I get. Thanks!