This is part 3 of the Q&A article published last year. Eventually I will migrate these to the FAQ section of the site. If anyone has any questions that are not included in this Q&A or the other Q&A’s post a comment to https://www.davidhill.co/2011/01/q-a/ and I will answer and include in the FAQ. vCloud Director: vApp Cloning Q. I have a vAPP comprised of 10 VMs. When I add this vAPP to my cloud using the “Add to My Cloud…” option, I see from vCenter that it is cloning each VM in a serial fashion, not in parallel. I was hoping the 10 source VMs would be cloned in parallel to 10 new VMs. Is this expected behavior and are there any options to change this to clone in parallel to reduce the provisioning time? A. Serial cloning is the expected behavior. Cloning and deploying new vApps is always done […]
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VMware vSphere Client for iPad
I cant believe this actually slipped by me. On 18th March, VMware officially released the vSphere iPad client. To use this client you need to download and install the vCenter Mobile Access appliance. The iPad client allows you to manage and control your VMware hosts and Virtual Machines running within a vCenter. The VMware vSphere Client for iPad is a companion interface to the traditional vSphere client, optimized for viewing and managing your vSphere environment on the go. With this client you can monitor the performance of vSphere hosts and virtual machines. Virtual machines can be started, stopped and suspended. vSphere hosts can be rebooted or put into maintenance mode. Features: Search for vSphere hosts and virtual machines in your vSphere environment Monitor the performance of vSphere hosts and virtual machines Manage virtual machines with the ability to start, stop and suspend View and restore your virtual machines’ snapshots Reboot […]
VMworld 2011 Call for Papers deadline extended 12th April
The deadline for the VMworld Call for Papers has been extended until 12th April. Get your papers submitted now. ———————————————————————————————– The deadline for submitting papers to VMworld is 5th April. This leaves 4 working days to submit your proposal to present a session. VMworld 2010 had thousands of attendees and is a great way to meet like minded virtualization specialists. If you you have a great story around virtualization then submit a session. It could cover anything from a vSphere DR scenario through to a vCloud implementation. Presenting is great fun, I really enjoyed presenting my PEX 2011 session, and will (hopefully) be presenting at VMworld 2011. Go on, submit a session today 🙂 http://www.vmworld.com/cfp.jspa
VMware vCloud Director Host vCDNI Statistics Utility
After reading a colleagues (Kamau Wanguhu) blog article on vCD Network Isolation today I found out about a tool included with the VMware vCloud Director agent installed on ESX/ESXi Hosts. This is a really easy way to look at configuration and statistics for vCD Network Isolation configured on that host. Kamau’s article tells us the following about the tool To get per host vCDNI statistics use: /opt/vmware/vslad/fence-util The utility can be used to display: Configured Networks and there MTU settings Acitve Ports and there port IDs Switch State including inside and outside MAC addresses Port Statistics on a port ID basis When running the command with no options, this provides the help for the utility: ~ # /opt/vmware/vslad/fence-util vsla-fence log at Thu Mar 24 09:09:54 2011 fence-util [options] command [arguments [arguments]] -h This help message. -v Turn on verbose mode -q Turn on quiet mode -r Reset statistics after executing […]
HowTO: Enable Remote Syslog to VMware vCD cells after installation
Seen a few emails flying around the other day about how to add a remote Syslog server to the vCD cell once it has been installed. This has caught out a few people in the past couple of months. Follow the documentation and edit the syslog section in /opt/vmware/cloud-director/etc/responses.properties then re-run the configuration. Add your Syslog server to the audit.syslog.host line in /opt/vmware/cloud-director/etc/global.properties Restart the vCD Cell [service vmware-vcd restart] This will then configure vCD for using a remote syslog server. Please note: This is only required if you have an already installed or pre-configured vCD cell. For all fresh installations follow the guidelines in the installation guide.