My new R710 running ESXi 4.0 has one problem: When the CPU load comes close to maximum, all performance monitoring for the host failes. Only a few, random monitoring requests comes through, making the resource graphs in vCenter look pretty ugly.
Posted: June 20th, 2009 under VMware by Frode.
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Mike La Spina has written a nice post about automatic installation of ESX 4.0 hosts utilizing PXE, kickstart and a lot of scripts. Mike has done a nice job creating configuration scripts, making it easy to copy his ideas for use in your own environment.
Auto installation becomes necessary if you need to deploy a large number of hosts. Now, if VMware only could copy Virtual Iron’s way of automatically installing and setting up hosts. My dream is an automatic installation and configuration of ESXi hosts without the need for painful point-and-click-customatization after the host is added to vCenter. Host profiles, as far as I know, solves only half the problem (and yeah, I know that it is possible to achieve this by using some custom scripts)…
Posted: June 20th, 2009 under VMware by Frode.
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According to The Register, Oracle is going to kill Virtual Iron fron the end of June 2009. Now, I’m not that surprised, there are a lot of Xen based virtualization products on the market. The only difference between them is the management software. Read more »
Posted: June 20th, 2009 under Random thoughts by Frode.
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I’m not the biggest fan of Microsoft Hyper-V which I assume is the hypervisor used in their Azure solution. As illustrated earlier, Hyper-V has its problems, especially with live migration and iSCSI support. But, the Azure have some clever solution on its own. Read more »
Posted: June 19th, 2009 under Cloud computing, Hyper-V, Random thoughts by Frode.
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My interest for virtualization solution includes cloud computing. Now, cloud computing is the new buzzword. Users, system administrators and investors hope that cloud computing will solve all redundancy and administration problems that currently exists. I am currently not that optimistic, especially when I think about all the new problems that cloud computing introduces. Read more »
Posted: June 18th, 2009 under Cloud computing, Random thoughts by Frode.
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It’s been nearly 11 months since I wrote the feature request post where I asked for some features currently missing in VMware. Now, it’s time to see how it went: Read more »
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under VMware by Frode.
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I recently had the pleasure of trying to change the host name and IP address of the vCenter server. The old host has two networking interfaces. NIC1 was connected to the Internet while NIC2 was connected to an internal network with IP address 192.168.30.0/24. The vCenter and the plugins were configured to use the internal IP address. Read more »
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under VMware by Frode.
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I promised some more details on the R200 and ESXi 4.0. Read more »
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under Hardware, VMware by Frode.
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So, it was time to make the virtualization a bit more serious and the same time solve my hosting problem. After a quick survey of the hardware available, I bought a Dell PowerEdge R710: Read more »
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under Hardware, VMware by Frode.
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So, vSphere is out. I can’t say that I have noticed a huge difference from ESXi 3.5 to 4.0, but a few new features are always nice. Read more »
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under VMware by Frode.
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