I had an issue on one of my ESXi hosts in my home lab this morning, where it seemed the host had become completely un-responsive. SSH was still working, so I restarted all the services on that host using the command listed below. This works on ESXi 4 and 5, but I don’t know if it is a supported method. Note: This command stops all services on the host and restarts them. There is no guarantee this will not affect VMs running on that host. ./sbin/services.sh restart You will then see the following output as all the services stop and restart Running vmware-fdm stop Stopping vmware-fdm:success Running vslad stop Stopping vslad… Success. Running svm-autostart stop Running sfcbd-watchdog stop Running usbarbitrator stop watchdog-usbarbitrator: Terminating watchdog with PID 5625 usbarbitrator stopped. Running vmware-vpxa stop Stopping vmware-vpxa:success Running wsman stop Stopping openwsmand Running slpd stop Stopping slpd Running vprobed stop watchdog-vprobed: Terminating watchdog […]
VMware vCloud KB articles released this week
Thought I would share the links to some important KB articles that have been released this week. Hope they help. Special thanks to Michael Haines for sending this to me. Enabling centralized logging of vCloud Director cell logs (2004519) Date Published: 11/14/2011 http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2004519
vCloud Ecosystem components explained – Part 2
Recently I wrote an article about the overall “vCloud EcoSystem”, and what components were required to build out a full Cloud environment. The article briefly touches on the availability of some of these components. A quick extract is shown below: So why are these components important? When designing a vCloud environment, you need to take into consideration the availability of certain components, like vCenter for example. This is no longer a management tool that is used to manage your virtual infrastructure. This is a critical component of your vCloud environment passing through all the operational commands a consumer initiates using vCloud Director. How do you protect vCenter? There are 6 databases in a vCloud Ecosystem. How do you protect all the databases? Every component shown above with the exception of ESXi and vCloud Connector have a database that have relationships with each other. If you loose a vCenter database and […]
Partner Exchange Registration – Early bird discount
Partner Exchange is coming along soon, February 13th – February 16th. Registration is open and VMware are offering an early bird discount if you sign up before 16th December. For further information or to visit the Partner Exchange site, click here For those who don’t know what Partner Exchange is all about, I have included the summary off the web page. VMware Partner Exchange is dedicated to educating and enabling you to sell and deploy VMware products and solutions successfully. – Gain insights to identify customer needs effectively – Explore best practices to acquire new customers – Find out how to expand business by cross-selling VMware solutions and services – Network with other partners, VMware experts and executives – Walk away with go-to-market selling strategies that enable you to accelerate your business You’ll learn of VMware’s plans for the coming year, learn about new partner programs, explore best practices and […]
vCloud Director appliance launched for evaluations
On Friday the VMware vCloud Director virtual appliance was launched. This appliance has been designed to enable you to evaluate and test vCloud Director. If you want to stand up a small PoC environment then this is the appliance for you. Some key features of the appliance: Auto generates certificates Auto configures local database Auto configure HTTP and console proxy NIC’s This appliance really does make it easy for someone with no vCloud Director knowledge to simply stand up a small cloud. This appliance is purely designed for evaluations, so if you are looking for something to deploy in production then this is not the appliance for you. You would not be able to attach vCenter Chargeback to this appliance for example, due to the configuration of the local database. If used in conjunction with the vCenter appliance you could have a fully working within one hour of deploying the […]