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.
Monthly Archive: June 2009
Jun
20
2009
Jun
20
2009
Automatic installation of ESX 4.0
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 …
Jun
20
2009
RIP Virtual Iron
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.
Jun
19
2009
Clever solutions: Microsoft Azure and its fabric controller
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.
Jun
18
2009
Cloud computing: Addressing on a global scale
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.
Jun
10
2009
Feature requests, take two
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:
Jun
10
2009
Changing host name and IP address of a vCenter server
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 …
Jun
10
2009
Dell PowerEdge R200 and ESXi 4.0
I promised some more details on the R200 and ESXi 4.0.
Jun
10
2009
New host: Dell PowerEdge R710
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:
Jun
10
2009
vSphere 4.0
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.
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