I will be on an VMware training next week. 🙂 Course Description: This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere™, which consists of ESXi and vCenter Server. The course is based on ESXi 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite …

After a long night round about 60% of my environment is back online. I’m still facing issues especially with my homepage, because the backup of my appliance was defect. That is the reason why I have now a new design. The new look and feel will be slightly changed in some days to better re-present xmsoft.

As you can imagine I’m currently busy in restoring as much data as possible. Therefore it will take some time until the next new post at this site. Additionally I’m working on an new bullet proof backup concept for my virtual environment.

######################################################################################################## # Steps to use the script: # # 1st: create a folder on an shared datastore # # 2nd: adjust the content of the variable $FolderName to the name of the folder created in step 1 # # 3rd: adjust the content of the …

VMware released the 1st information about the new upcoming vSphere5 including an new license model. vSphere 5 Overview vSphere 5 Pricing A full review of vSphere 5 will follow later as I’m currently very busy with our vSphere 4.1 environment and the development of an fully automated management/support system.

This is an CentOS 5 based bare-metal installer. OpenNode includes KVM and OpenVZ. They offer an management tools but I prefere to use the OpenVZ Web Panel (Link). I have installed OpenNode onto my HP Proliant ML115 G5. This was really easy as a normal CentOS installation. Link to OpenNode After the system finished the …

This is really good tool to access an linux appliance located in an environment which only allow’s http/https. It is a small daemon which runs in the background on port 4200. It is possible to setup an reverse proxy based on apache2 to access shell in a box via http/https. Shell in a Box

Script to create a report about the VMware Tools status: Sample Output: Total VMs: 527 Total powered on: 474 Total powered off: 53 ToolsOK: 140 ToolsOld: 227 ToolsNotInstalled: 106 DisConnect from Virtual Center Set-PSDebug -Strict $VIServer = "VCENTERIP" Connect-VIServer -server $VIServer -User USERNAME -Password …

First you need to connect to a vCenter: Connect-VIServer -Server VCENTERIP -User USERNAME -Password PASSWORD Get-VMHost | Sort | Select Name, @{N="FC Device";E={[string]::Join(",",(($_ | Get-View).Config.StorageDevice.HostBusAdapter | where{$.GetType().Name -eq "HostFibreChannelHba"} | %{$.Device}))}}, @{N="FC …

This is a small function to rename the local datastore of a fresh installed ESXi server from datastore1 to SERVERNAME-local. $ServerIP="192.168.4.3" function renameds { $vmHost = Get-VMHost -Name $ServerIP $dsname = $vmHost + "-local" Get-Datastore -Name datastore* | Set-Datastore -Name $dsname }