I’m currently playing around with the new VMware VSA 5.1. I have installed it successfully on a standalone vCenter with local users. But on a different vCenter which is using an OpenLDAP as user base the VSA Manager fails to install with the error message “Login failed due to a Bad user or password”. The reason for …

Yesterday VMware has announced the new VMware vSphere 5.1 with multiple cool new features. Feature list from the Whats New VMware 51 Platform Technical Whitepaper.pdf VMware vSphere 5.1 introduces many new features and enhancements that further extend the core capabilities of the vSphere platform. The core platform …

Since May ( Post ) I was facing multiple Kernel panic’s in my VDR appliance. Now I got something like a fix which is running quite smooth in my environment. Steps: Deploy a new VDR 2.0 appliance SSH in or log into the console (root/vmw@re) 3. Install this kernel. rpm -i …

Sounds strange but yes it is possible 🙂 Just one module and some lines of Powershell code and thats it.Import-Module SSH-Sessions $old_passwd = "vmware" $new_passwd = "VMware1!" New-SshSession -ComputerName IP-ADDRESS -Username admin -Password $old_passwd $result = Invoke-SshCommand -ComputerName …

The great virtualization solution Proxmox VE has been release in version 2.1. Release notes – simplify GUI for users without permissions – implemented startup/shutdown ordering – improved task logs on node startup/shutdown – added Russian, Italian and Turkish translation – updated corosync cluster stack to 1.4.3 – …

I’m currently facing an problem with my vdr that it runs into a kernel panic. It looks like an issue with the hot add function which add’s vmdks from virtual machines. The response from vmware was to set to parameters in the datarecovery.ini file. Location: /var/vmware/datarecovery/datarecovery.ini If the file doesn’t …

I’m very busy at work as we are currently in major reorganisation. Personal for myself everything has changed. I’m now in a new department including a new boss and new responsibilities. But now everything settles and I have time for new stuff like my preparation for the VCP 5 exam. 🙂 As preparation I have upgraded my …

I tried a lot of “appliance” but the most of them are not appliance. Always the same stuff, they virtualize a server and call it virtual appliance. There is no menu to configure the network and so on. Just an virtual machine with an full OS and an application. A real virtual appliance has an OS called JeOS (Just enough …

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I was not quite happy with the statistics from the vCenter. It is not possible to get an overview overall my ESXi servers. 🙁 Someone pointed me to the tool Graphite that this is a cool solution to visualize such kind of statistics. So I decided to give it a try. I created and virtual machine running Centos and Graphite …