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.
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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.
VMware vCloud Director
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 […]
Failed to log into NFC server
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.