Archive for the ‘Data Center’ Category
Trilead VM Explorer
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 in Data Center, VCB, Virtualization | No Comments »
I found this tools from the Internet which provide some impress features to allow the users to manage the backup and VM explorer as an alternative from the only tools we have on the VM infrastructure today. Trilead is able to work as explorer for you to manage, review, monitor and task execution on your VM infrastructure farm. It able to provide the inventory listing in details for us to manage the VM infrastructure as an alternative. Screenshots is attached for reference purposes.
IBM x3950 M2 Powerful ESX Machine
Posted on November 27th, 2008 in Data Center, Hardware, Virtualization | 2 Comments »
For a while ago, I had spoken to my team and friends about the amazing concept if we do able to use the HPC concept to scale our Server hardware in term of processors, memory and I/O without increasing the amount of ESX server in the Virtual Environment. I remember the question had been raised to the VMware representative and this is not in the road map for the ESX servers. 2 days back when I attended the seminar in town and I found this interesting server which is IBM X3950 M2 had been presented with the capabilities I had been looked around. Some of my friend may think the idea of doing this is crazy or over limit, but in real scenario, you will realize the benefits in term of managing and scaling from time to time when you managing a real huge environment with a massive amount of Virtual Machines.
VMWARE ESX Server Management Script
Posted on November 7th, 2008 in Data Center, Operating Systems, Others, Tips, Virtualization | 2 Comments »
Have you ever experience your Virtual Console down and VMWare Infrastructure Client not working?
Here’s an alternative solution for you: a Bash script to run on your ESX Server.
Sample screen shot:
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VMWARE ESX Management Tool Script
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Author : http://malaysiavm.com/blog
Version : 1.00.20081107.14.31
Supported ESX Version : 2.5 - 3.5
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0. VM Informations
1. Register VM
2. Unregister VM
3. Check VM Status
4. Power ON VM
5. Power OFF VM
6. Suspend VM
E. Exit
Choice:
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How to add new volume in VM online (Windows)
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 in Data Center, Operating Systems, Storage, Tips, Virtualization | No Comments »
Your customer want you to add a new volume in one of the VM Windows server but can not affort down time? No worry, you can do that easily with ESX.
Below is step by step guide with screen captured from the VM (my test machine is running on Windows 2003 Enterprise):
Tip: It is best to do a snapshot before you start this task, incase anything goes wrong.
1) This is my test VM machine. It is having one disk at beginning.
