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Originally posted 2009-02-15 07:53:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter After spending a week on what should have been an easy project to designing a student lab environment at a well known online university, I am now stumped because of a change in VMware’s Lab Manager 3.0 requirements. Lab Manager 3.0 now requires VirtualCenter which poses a problem because this lab environment is isolated for security reasons away from the administration and production network. In previous Lab Manager installs, I’ve just setup an ESX host, configured a VM with Windows Server 2003, installed the Lab Manager software and added the host servers for the lab environment. No VirtualCenter was required and it worked perfect on local storage. Now unless businesses are willing to redesign their networks, they will require another VirtualCenter for the Lab Manager 3.0 environment to remain isolated. Options are: 1) pay the extra $ for the VirtualCenter or 2) install older version of Lab Manager 2.5 (about $1295 per socket) or 3) $0, do without Lab Manager. Originally posted 2009-01-21 18:30:25. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Veeam Monior is certainly the best monitoring software for VMware that I have ever evaluated. And, aside from it not being distributed as a virtual appliance, it’s worth the time for a simple install that requires a Windows server to host it. What’s Veeam Monitor’s Value? Want reports that are easy to customize and look professional, alerts that are meaningful, stats on disk latency and IOPS and graphs that say it all – Veeam Monitor can deliver them all. You won’t get unnecessary flash animation or colored arrows but you will get real-time data that will help manage and report your VMware Infrastructure metrics. The full version of Veeam Monitor features additional enterprise-oriented features including access to:
But I like try before I buy and Veeam monitor has a free version that allows just that. I was amazed with how much I could do with the free version.
Veeam Monitor is a tool worth installing. Here’s the link to Veeam’s website: http://www.veeam.com/esxi-monitoring-free.html Note: Tested with VirtualCenter 2.5 U4 and ESX 3.5 U4 and vSphere 4.0 (VC 4.0 and ESX 4.0) Originally posted 2009-11-01 08:38:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
FYI: The new version of VMware VM Converter works great for converting a physical Windows and Lunux server into a virtual server. Once the conversion is completed, the new VM is online, VMtools are installed and video acceleration is set, here’s a couple more steps I learned about at a VMUG meeting that I recommend doing to finish the P2V job. First – Remove Old Physical Hardware from the New Windows VM (picture shows “grayed” disk drives) Step 1 - Log into the VM Step 2 - Open a command prompt Step 3 – At the prompt type: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 Step 4 – Wait for the Device Manager to open, then click on View > Show Hidden Devices Second – Uninstall Old Hardware Specific Software Step 1 – Log into the VM Step 2- Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs Step 3 – Carefully find and uninstall programs from IBM/Dell/HP/other that are used for drive arrays, networking, ILO or any other similar application that is specific to the physical hardware. Note: These items are not required now that the server hardware has been virtualized. Done – When all the applications have been uninstalled, close the Control Panel and reboot Q: Why do this? A: The reason I do these steps is because over the years I’ve had to troubleshoot VMs that I found were P2V’d by someone else and not cleaned up. This normally causes poor performance and issues with ghost hardware that conflict with the virtual hardware devices, more specific – network adapters. There – now all you need to do is make sure all your best practices are applied to the VM and it’s ready for production. Originally posted 2009-09-19 07:22:18. Republished by Blog Post Promoter |
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