January, 2009
Veeam Backup and FastSCP
I was looking for a way to transfer some VM’s from a Linux VMware 2.0 server to a VMware ESX 3.5 server as fast as possible to minimise the amount of downtime. As these files would need to be copied to a windows share first for the converter to import i started with WinSCP, when [...]
Next London VM User Group announced
The next Vmware user group has been announced in London to be held on Tuesday 10th March 2009. I will be there so please come over and say Hi as I normally know no-one ! The details released are as follows…. The Steering Committee are pleased to announce the next UK London VMware User Group [...]
New Blog layout
OK, I have finally stopped messing with my new blog layout so hopefully everyone will agree it looks better. Any comments or suggestions please do not hesitate to leave me a comment below.
vDiagram – VMGuru Style
Scott Herold (VMGuru) has done it again, he has a habit of taking my scripts and then improving them beyond reality. I think next time I will be asking him to check it out before I release it on the public. Firstly he has amended the VMware Twits script and created a really neat PowerGui [...]
vDiagram – Draw your VI with one script
Every good blog post should have some real life story to help you visualise why things happen so here goes: The Story One day whilst sat in the office updating the disaster recovery documentation I needed to document the Virtual Infrastructure, we all know that managers like pretty pictures so the first thing they asked [...]
VI3 Quick Reference Card
The guys over at vmrefernce.com have just updated there VI3 reference card, having used the last version many times and always keeping a copy on my desk I would check out the updated version and print off a few copies for you and your colleagues. The new version contains all the updated information form ESX [...]
Should I virtualise Exchange ?
For a long time the answer was no, but developments in the VMware Products have lead to major improvements in disk/network/memory and CPU performance so now the question is… Where do I start ? If your looking for a good starting point I would listen to the recent podcast from the VMware community round table [...]
Reservations / Limits and Shares
Apparently when performing a Virtual Center upgrade from ’2.5 Update 1′ to ‘Update 2′ caused some issues when someone on twitter upgraded, It gave some of the attached Virtual machines reservations and limits that did not exist before, this obviously caused a few problems, especially to the machines that had more memory allocated than was [...]
Check Cluster Configurations
Hugo has been pushing out some nice scripts recently and his latest is a cracker… This Powershell script generates an overview of any items that are not available to every ESX server in a VMware cluster. These items might prevent your vm’s being vmotioned by DRS or restarted by HA. Pretty serious business, I’d say! [...]
vExpert
As you will have probably seen from the other vBloggers out there VMware (should that now be vMware) have announced there version of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Its called a vExpert and you can have your say as to who you think deserves this prestigious title here
