Moving Your “Customers” From Perception to Reality
There is an intense and growing frustration resonating from many government CIOs and IT Directors. They're fighting the negative perceptions that internal, enterprise IT is too expensive and delivers...
View ArticlePowerCLI - Migrating virtual machines without vmotion from one host to another
If for some reason vmotion is not available in the environment and a large number of vms need to be migrated from one host to another (specially when they are of different versions), then the following...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 U2 のパッチ(オフライン バンドル)の中身を調査してみる。
ESXi 5.1 Update 2 がリリースされました。 VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 2 リリース ノートhttps://www.vmware.com/jp/support/support-resources/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs/vsphere-esxi-51u2-release-notes.htmlさっそく...
View ArticleApplication Director CLI error "peer not authenticated"
When you run VMware VCAC Application Director CLI (darwin-cli.jar) you get "peer not authenticated" like reported here. This typically (almost always) happens when you are not using the darwin-cli.jar...
View ArticleTroubleshooting import-puppet-manifest CLI command
General troubleshooting guide around VMware VCAC Application Director CLI command import-puppet-manifests. The primary mechanism used in importing are based on two puppet commands - puppet...
View ArticleQuick Start Guide: Application Director and Puppet Enterprise Integration
1 IntroductionThis document is a quick start guide to configure and use Puppet Integration feature as part of VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.0 release.2 Import Puppet ContentUse vCloud Automation...
View ArticleESXi 5.x パッチ オフラインバンドルのVIB比較スクリプト作ってみました。
ESXi パッチのオフラインバンドル(ZIP形式のインストールイメージ)を読みこんで、イメージプロファイルの VIB を比較する PowerCLI スクリプトを作成してみました。 下記 VIB 比較するよりも、わかりやすく差分表示されるようにしています。ESXi 5.1 U2 のパッチ(オフライン バンドル)の中身を調査してみる。 diff_image_profile.ps1...
View ArticleWelcome python and (maybe) goodbye poowershell?
Hi all,as commented in virtuallyGhetto, Vmware relased vSphere SDK for python! Now it's possible to automate vmware tasks using python. In futures updates will be enhancements in this SDK. Nowadays,...
View ArticleSecuring your information assets and data, what about your storage?
Securing your information assets and data, what about your storage?Recently I did a piece over at the site Information Security Buzz title How Secure Is Your Data Storage? that takes a cursory look...
View ArticleLenovo buys IBM's xSeries aka x86 server business, what about EMC?
Lenovo buys IBM's xSeries x86 server business for $2.3B USD, what about EMC?Once again Lenovo is new owner of some IBM computer technology, this time by acquiring the x86 (e.g. xSeries) server...
View ArticleIT and data center sustainability, the other convergence zone
IT and data center sustainability convergenceRecently Hailey Lynne McKeefry (@HaileyMcK), Editor in Chief over at Data Center Acceleration (@DataAccelerate) reached out for a conversation about well,...
View ArticleWelcome to the Data Protection Diaries www.dataprotectiondiaries.com
Welcome to the Data Protection Dairies www.dataprotectiondiaries.comThis is a series of posts about data protection which includes security (logical and physical), backup/restore, business continuance...
View ArticleData Protection Diaries – My data protection needs and wants
Data Protection Diaries – My data protection needs and wantsRather than talking about what others should do or consider for their data protection needs, for this post I wrote down some notes using my...
View ArticleUntil the focus expands to data protection, backup is staying alive!
Until the focus expands to data protection, backup is staying alive!This is the first of a three-part series discussing how and why vendors are keeping backup alive, read part two here. Some vendors,...
View ArticleESXi データストアへの VM 配置について。(PowerCLI でデータストア空き容量と IOPS を見てみる)
自宅や検証環境の ESXi では、結構こんなケースがあるのではないかと思います。そこそこ大容量のローカルHDD をいくつも接続している。何となく負荷分散して あまり特定のデータストアに偏らないように VM を配置する。しかし VM が多くなってきていて、新しい VM を作成するときにどのデータストアに配置するか悩む。しかも vCenter管理していない。(無償版 ESXi とか)最近、自宅 ESXi...
View ArticleGSS Technical Seminar ( 2014. 02. 03) - vCenter Server SNMP and Alarms
2014년 2월 3일에 있었던 GSS 기술 세미나입니다.아래 링크를 클릭하시면 녹화된 세션을 보실 수 있습니다.https://vmware.webex.com/vmware/lsr.php?RCID=74d37e6e712047cc8b48a34fc6d3b9e5 세션에서 설명된 내용은 첨부하는 pdf 파일에 정리하였으니 함께 참고하시기 바랍니다.세션 내용에 대한 질문이나...
View ArticleTroubleshooting for vCAC Application Director import-puppet-manifests command...
General guide for the usage of import-puppet-manifests command can be found at import-puppet-manifests. Few other common issues and troubleshooting information related to import-puppet-manifests...
View ArticleTroubleshooting for setting up solution instance in VMware vCloud Application...
This blog post contains common issues and resolutions related to setting up the solution instance in vCloud Application Director. Register a Solution Instance documentation contains general information...
View ArticlePart 1: SAP on VMware: Why choose x86?
Using SAP on VMware is no more a myth or risky but a reality. There are good number of customers who had not only virtualized their SAP test/Dev but also their production SAP on VMware’s reliable...
View ArticleL'utilizzo dei dischi SSD secondo NetApp: FlasPool
Tutti i produttori di storage negli ultimi anni hanno ovviamente dovuto introdurre i "dischi" (le virgolette sono d'obbligo perché non c'è più correlazione fra il nome e la struttura fisica...) a stato...
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