Summary: Hi, My last post on the matter was rather simplistic, as it did not back up .vmx files or template .vmtx files – this meant that a recovered VMDK (while useful) would require a new VMX/VMTX to make sure there wasn’t too much client OS reconfiguration. Here’s an updated RPM I have created that [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
Installing ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0: Best Practices
VMware have an article out, relating to best practices in installing vCenter and ESX 4.0 It’s fairly basic in only stating system requirements and basic suggestions, but it’s not too bad – I will be creating my own best practices extensions when I finish my testing phase. But for now, the KB is here. Cheers, [...]
A long-awaited feature in ESX 3.5
I recently patched my development ESX servers to the latest patch sets for ESX 3.5. And then I had to reconfigure my ESX firewall to install Dell’s OpenManage Imagine my surprise when I saw this: [root@infdevm001e root]# esxcfg-firewall -h esxcfg-firewall -q|–query Lists current settings. -q|–query Lists setting for the specified service. -q|–query incoming|outgoing Lists setting [...]
Revisiting Queue Depth
This is something I didn’t know and just assumed to be true, but for all previous releases of ESX, there was no adaptive queing. In other words, if your HBA queue depth was set too high, ESX would not lower it on a BUSY or QFULL condition. With ESX 3.5u4, this is no longer the [...]
How big is my VM?
Recently, we had a need to find out what our VM size assignments were – as in how big each VM was in terms of presented storage (RDM or VMDK). So I wrote a script: #!/bin/bash rm -f /var/vmlist find /vmfs/volumes/ -name “*.vmx”| while read i do dir=`echo $i | awk -F”/” ‘{print $1″/”$2″/”$3″/”$4″/”$5}’` cd [...]