I have received a couple of questions about how to add a PowerCLI scrip to Windows task scheduler after publishing my blog post vSphere Cluster Resource Pool Configuration Script Depending on the customer requirements there are several ways of doing this. Customer requirements for my implementation includes: An active directory based service account must be used …
vCloud Director required RedHat packages challenge
When installing vCloud Director 5.1 the other day i ran in to one interesting challenge. It has nothing to do with the actual vCloud Director software, it was all about the vCloud Director prerequisites. The required RedHat packages are: The customer RedHat image did not include all the packages, the below packages were missing. libXdmcp libXi …
vCenter Orchestrator Player mode
When i logged on to a vCenter Orchestrator server a few days ago i was a bit surprised because i was not able to edit any workflow. I could still run the workflows but the “Edit” option was greyed out. Walking through the vCenter Orchestrator Client UI i found that the vCenter Orchestrator server were …
ESXi host disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault configuration using PowerCLI
This section is updated since vSphere 5.5 was GA during VMworld 2013. From now on the configuration option has changed regarding two things: Name – It is now called VMkernel.Boot.terminateVMOnPDL and not Disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault Configuration – It is now an advanced ESXi configuration parameter and not a text string in the ESXi host file /etc/vmware/settings Continue reading if …
vSphere cluster resource pool configuration script
This blog will include the technical aspect (the script) which i mentioned in the blog post vCloud Director implementation for small businesses Input parameters: 4 vSphere cluster resource pools exists at the vSphere cluster root level SLA-Gold with priority value 10 SLA-Silver with priority value 5 SLA-Bronze with priority value 3 SLA-vCloud with priority value …
vCloud Director implementation for small businesses
So this will be the first blog post where i discuss an architectural challenge. Several vCloud Director implementations i have conducted in Sweden lately has been for small businesses or at least including small virtual environments. Some of the customer requirements included in my last project were: 4 ESXi hosts available. Run vCloud Director based …
vCloud Director – monitor failed login attempts without syslog
Last week i was asked by a customer how they could monitor failed login attempts in vCloud Director. The customer required the ability to use their existing monitoring tool and read the failed login attempts from a file every hour. The customer did not have a syslog server in place, will be implemented during Q2 …
vCloud Director cell – change network adapter
During service maintenance this week i had to change one of the vNICs for a vCD 5.1 cell (Red Hat Enterprise Server 6.2) to make all 3 vNICs using the same adapter type for consistency purposes. For each cell we are using 3 vNIC where: Network Adapter 1 is connected to a management VLAN for …
VMware Multiple NIC vMotion generates unicast flooding in the network
————————————————————————————————- Blog post updated 2013-07-18 The problem described in this blog post has been fixed in the ESXi 5.0 U2 and in the 5.1 U1 releases but the original blog post is left unchanged. ————————————————————————————————- I have been using the VMware multiple NIC vMotion, VMware KB 2007467 , configuration where possible and needed, e.g. running high …
Error deploying vCNS Manager
Today i had a problem trying to deploy the latest version of the vCNS Manager 5.1.2a. The deployment process of the vCNS Manager VA failed immediately with the error: “The virtual machine is not supported on the target datastore” I used the latest version of vCenter Server and the latest IBM ESXi build. To solve …
First blog post
So today i ( @magander3 ) decided to start a blog. Really do not know if i got the time or the interest to keep a blog up and running but i’ll give it a try. Will probably spend some time to adjust the layout and also create a proper url at some point.