A colleague of mine reminded some of us about the VMware vCloud Director Communities forum today. It is an excellent forum in which you can post your questions and find answers on VMware vCloud Director and find more links to documents and information on the product. A very helpful and useful resource for anyone looking to deploy or evaluate VMware vCloud Director. Click the link below and begin your VMware vCloud Director journey. http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vcd;jsessionid=316FDEB0D54607B9665115221E74C308?view=overview
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Novell SLES for VMware now available for FREE
Some news on the Novell Suse Enterprise Linux (SLES) front. From yesterday (15/9/10) SLES for VMware, a Linux distribution based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 is available now. Customers who have purchased VMware vSphere 4.1 licenses on or after June 9, 2010 qualify to run an unlimited number of SLES virtual machines and receive all necessary patches and updates for free. I personally think this is a great deal, and will be interesting to see where VMware and Novell go with this partnership, maybe lots of joint appliances in the future. For further official information click here.
HowTo: Enable SSH and Remote Tech Support mode on ESXi 4.1
A couple of days ago I posted an article that has been produced hundreds of times about Enabling ssh on ESXi – pre 4.1. Today I thought I would post a quick how-to about enabling it via vCenter on ESXi 4.1. This drastically makes life easier, because you neither have to edit config files via the cLI nor do you need access to server consoles either remotely or physically. 1) Log in to vCenter 2) Select your host 3) Click the configuration tab 4) Select Security Profile under Software – You will be shown the services that are available for configuration 5) Click Properties 6) Highlight Remote Tech Support (SSH) and click options 7) Choose the Startup policy and Service Command that you require. 8 ) Click Ok 9) Click Ok 10) Open up a SSH session to your host and login Once enabled you will notice that the host […]
HowTo: Enable SSH on ESXi
Most people will be able to do this in there sleep. I used to be able too, but ran into some issues today when trying this at home. Obviously with vSphere 4 you dont need to do this anymore. This can be enabled through the advanced settings from within the vSphere client. For those of you not familiar with this task, here is the details. 1) At the console of the ESXi host, press ALT-F1 to access the console window. 2) Enter unsupported in the console and then press Enter. You will not see the text you type in. 3) You will see the Tech Support Mode warning and a password prompt. Enter the password for the root login. 4) You should then see the prompt of #. Edit the file inetd.conf (enter the command vi /etc/inetd.conf). 5) Find the line that begins with #ssh and remove the #. Save […]
VMware vCloud Director Screenshots
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.