While working in our test lab today, I thought I would take some screenshots for people to see VMware vCloud Director first hand, not everyone will be at a stage ready to deploy into a test environment. Let me know if you find these useful. Hover over the thumbnails for a brief description, and click to enlarge.
VMware have officially launched VMware vCloud Director today at VMworld. I recently joined VMware to work in the Cloud Services team, and this is the product we have been working on developing and testing with some customers under NDA. Here is an excerpt from the VMware website: Pool virtual infrastructure resources in your existing datacenter and deliver them to users as a catalogue-based service with VMware vCloud Director. Coupled with VMware vSphere™, the best platform for cloud infrastructures, VMware vCloud Director enables customers to build secure private clouds, transforming the way IT delivers and manages infrastructure services and the way users access and consume these services. Increase business agility by empowering users to deploy pre-configured services or custom-built services with the click of a button Maintain security and control over a multi-tenant environment with policy-based user controls and VMware vShield security technologies Reduce costs by efficiently delivering resources to internal […]
I was working on my home lab yesterday and trying to upload some files to a NFS share, when I received this error “Failed to log into NFC server”. I spent quite some time digging around on NFS Server and ESXi server, but couldn’t find any events in the error logs to explain this. I restarted the vCenter service which resolved the issue! Looking through the communities forums too, this is fixed by restarting the vCenter service. To read more click here This kb article (for ESX 3.5) explains how to edit the VMware config file, however I did not need to do this to resolve, however it does also point out to check our name resolution.
Thought I would write this post to let people know about VMware’s plans to drop ESX. It has been in the pipeline for quite some time, but I know it is still a surprise to some people. This is an extract from the VMware Blog Site that clarifies the end of ESX. “ESX 4.1 is the last ESX! What do i do now?” With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1, we announced that 4.1 will be the last vSphere version to support both the ESX and ESXi hypervisor architectures. Going forward customers will be able to deploy vSphere only using ESXi. Although the infrastructure management tasks once performed by the Service Console are now handled by tasks running under the VMkernel, some ESX users may still depend on the custom scripts, third-party products, or operational procedures that use the Service Console. This means that upgrading to vSphere 4.1 is the […]
Yesterday saw the release of Service Manager 9.0 RP3. Product Page: http://www.vmware.com/support/product-support/service-manager/index.html Downloads Page: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_service_manager/9_0 Some of you may be wondering what is VMware Service Manager, here is a quick extract from the product page: VMware Service Manager develops a 100% web architected solution that automates IT Service Management processes in enterprise organizations.VMware Service Manager is independently verified to the highest level of ITIL compatibility for Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Management, Service Level Management and Availability Management.
