22 novembre 2011

 am just playing around in my lab and needed to do a couple of common ESXi commandline tasks which I figured I would document as they will come in handy at some point. List all VMs registered to this host (This reveals the Vmid needed for other commands)vim-cmd /vmsvc/getallvms Unregister a VMvim-cmd /vmsvc/unregister <Vmid> Register a VMvim-cmd /solo/register /path/to/file.vmx Get power state of a VMvim-cmd /vmsvc/power.getstate <Vimid> Power off a VMvim-cmd /vmsvc/power.off <Vmid> Power on a VMvim-cmd... [Lire la suite]

Today on twitter there was a discussion around having an appliance for the vSphere Web Client. I didn’t get the question as there’s already a vCenter Appliance out there. Apparently not everyone realised that the Web Client is part of the vCenter Appliance. On top of that you could even split out the components and use the vCenter Appliance just for Web Client functionality. I remembered seeing an article from one of my colleagues not too long ago. I dug up the links and here they are. I included a short snippet so you know what to... [Lire la suite]

e fournisseur d’accès Celeste a voulu concevoir son propre datacenter. Après une année de construction et 3 semaines d’essais industriels, son pari est gagné : Marilyn est le premier datacenter écologique haute densité au monde. Avec un modèle de refroidissement par l’air ambiant validé avec une charge à 1 MW, l’infrastructure accueille depuis octobre, les clients de Celeste. L’inauguration officielle est prévue le 24 novembre. --> A voir sur le site : http://www.speedfirenetwork.net/virtuanews/?p=2667 

It's been a few weeks since we uploaded our last video but we are happy to announce that we have just uploaded a new vSphere 5 related video for your viewing pleasure. This video shows you how to install VMware vSphere 5 vCenter Server in its basic configuration. vCenter Server 5 is a part of vSphere 5 product family and is used to offer system administrators a centralized management solution for remotely managing ESX Servers. --> Please see the website for the video and additional informations... [Lire la suite]

VMware has released version 4.7 of of its application virtualization solution ThinApp. This version includes the ability to use ThinApp packages in combination with its Software as a Service (SaaS) application catalog product Horizon Application Manager, a featureannounced in September this year. This version is the follow-up of version 4.6.2. which was released in August this year. More information on how to enable ThinApp integration with Horizon Application Manager can be found in ablogposting on the... [Lire la suite]

In September VMware released a new major version of its virtualization platform Workstation 8.0 and in October it released Player 4.0. Now VMware released an update for its virtualization platform Workstationand Player. Workstation gets updated to version 8.0.1 and Player to version 4.0.1. Workstation 8.0.1. and Player 4.0.1. now support Ubuntu 11.10 as a guest OS and provide improvements in creating and using shared VMs and remote VMs and graphics performance. Disk and Memory management issues have been... [Lire la suite]

One common issue with networking in virtualized environments is the outgoing ports from the virtual switches to the physical network switches. Configuring with VLANs and similar must be done very carefully to ensure that all ports are correctly setup. It is often quite hard to track patch cables going from the server chassis to the switch port and it is often also difficult to determine the relation between the ESXi server NIC ports to the VMNICs visible inside ESXi. A very helpful tool is a network discovery protocol, for... [Lire la suite]

Over the years, there has been a lot of debate around features in Windows which are usually referred to as Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (individual features are known as Receive Side Scaling (RSS) and Chimney/TCP Connection Offload/TOE), and the effect of having them enabled or disabled on our servers. Taking the trip down the memory lane - while it is true that when the features were released in Windows 2003 SP2, there were some issues to work out (in both Microsoft and 3rd party code such as network drivers) - the situation... [Lire la suite]

Le passage de la messagerie d'une entreprise vers Exchange Online de Office 365 doit être traité comme un projet à part entière. Que l'on soit responsable informatiques ou impliqué dans le projet, l'une des étapes associé à un tel projet est au une phase pilote. Cette phase pilote permet en général de valider l'adoption de la solution et des nouveaux outils associés par les utilisateurs. C'est aussi au cours de cette phase pilote que seront identifié et rectifier les incidents liés à la prise en main d'une nouvelle technologie. Que... [Lire la suite]

Vous l’attendiez, c’est maintenant officiel, la version Release Candidate de SQL Server 2012 est disponible en téléchargement gratuit depuis hier soir ! Par rapport à la version CTP3 que vous avez téléchargé il y a plusieurs nouveautés : Une interface ...read more     Read the complete post at http://blogs.technet.com/b/sql/archive/2011/11/18/sql-server-2012-release-candidate.aspx --> Please see the blog :... [Lire la suite]