OK, have just read HYPER-V QUICK MIGRATION & VMWARE LIVE MIGRATION PART 3, is it just me or is he really missing the point, I do not think that changing your working practices is a way of technically explaining how to do this.
And one big thing is surely that he is missing the 99.9% up time that many companies require for there 24hr running systems. Not once does he actually say 'We cant do it' but its written all over the article.
Just my humble opinion, I would be interested in your comments.
Marathon Technologies have released their everRun product for Citrix Xenserver which adds HA/ Continuous Availability to Xenserver. Have a look at the following link, very impressive…..
Flores Eken from ITQ Consultancy in the Netherlands is also an enthausiast VMware SDK programmer. He wrote this application in C# based on the new ESX3.x /VC2.x SDK. It allows you to easily setup all portgroups and VLan IDs on all your ESX Servers. You can first read out (use the export feature) the network settings of a single ESX Host. With that information you can then setup all your other servers.
The program also allows you to add or delete specific portgroups with the right VLan IDs and it had the option to execute a shell command thru an SSH connection to multiple servers at the same time.
Download ITQ VLan and Portgroup Manager
For more info about the program or about ITQ, contact Paul Geerlings (pgeerlings@itq.nl)
Personally I think yes, I say they have there feet wedged too far under the table for Microsoft to completely get rid of them, they are always one step ahead and I think will continue to be one step ahead for quite a while yet.
Brian Madden has other ideas…. I highly recommend reading his view
Just after you have told the networking guys that you will now be controlling vlans from your virtual switches (and picked them back up off the floor) you might want to hand them this handy link which explains in their own language (a mixture of clicks and huff’s) what VMware does, they may then meet you half way !
Here’s something I didnt know…
Did you know that you can publish multiple applications to a single Citrix Presentation Server in one shot? Not using scripts, but within Citrix Access Management Console itself?
Brugh posted a nice “VA” on the Virtual Appliance Marketplace. EDA is an appliance dedicated to deploying ESX servers fast and easy. It has a scriptbuilder to quickly create %postscripts.
ESX Deployment Appliance (EDA) is a small and easy to use appliance that makes deploying ESX servers a breeze. It has a very intuitive web-interface that can configure and deploy dozens of ESX servers in minutes. It has a script-builder that will allow any admin to create %post-scripts that will do most anything one needs to get the ESX hosts up and running! Even if deploying with RDP/Altiris or the UDA, this script-builder can help setting those up very quickly.
To set it up, just attach a ESX3 iso to it. It will automatically mount it and with one click, import the PXE bootfiles and strip the HBA drivers to do a save install while SAN LUNs are attached!
This appliance is still in beta stage because there’s a todo list. But it’s fully functional and has been tested to work at least on HP DL380’s, BL460, BL480 and Dell 2950 servers.
The VMware Virtualization Forum 2008 is for IT professionals and business decision makers interested in learning more about transforming a traditional, expensive IT environment into a fully optimized, cost-effective, virtualized environment.
Dates & venues (Spain, South Africa coming soon):
Stockholm, Sweden – 02 October 2008
Paris, France – 08 October 2008
Rotterdam, Netherlands – 15 October 2008
Dusseldorf, Germany – 22 October 2008
Vienna, Austria – 29 October 2008
Zurich, Switzerland – 05 November 2008
Milan, Italy – 12 November 2008
Warsaw, Poland – 13 November 2008
London, United Kingdom – 19 November 2008
Please note that VMware is planning to have partner days around the virtualization forum – more information to come soon. Partner Day is a one-day event which showcases the latest partner programs, training programs and marketing initiatives.
The Sysinternals team has updated its Process Monitor utility, an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, registry and process/thread activity. The Process Monitor 1.30 update adds support for importing and exporting filters, records system information in log files, presents more information about specific operations, includes translation of additional operation error codes, and tracks CPU and memory activity that it displays in a revamped process summary. Also check out Mark Russinovich’s Blog: The Case of the System Process CPU Spikes, where he shows how he used Process Monitor to track down a device driver causing CPU spikes.
Neale from System Center Forum: I have created a MP that will check a target server’s SMTP service by using telnet. The script included in the sample MP will require a command (to run on the target server) and an expected response (usually a string). The VBscript part of this MP uses the Toolsack Baseline dll (from Toolsack Software) to perform the telnet functions. When you import this MP, can you find the example rules by changing the scope of the Rules View in the Authoring pane to Management server. You can implement this MP in a SCE environment as well. (continue at source)