tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60279987376420210062024-02-19T10:05:42.969-05:00Virtual-Jay: The best VMware and Virtualization informationAn 15 year veteran of VMware virtualization shares the best info about VMware technologies and the virtualization industry.Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.comBlogger396125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-114231108983536622012-03-20T09:56:00.001-04:002012-03-20T09:56:55.752-04:00VSPHERE 5 UPDATE 1-NICE INFO PAGEFull disclosure, I learned about this from another blogger, Trent Steele with Varrow but very nice coverage of all the updates across products, compatibly and upgrade order.<div><a href="http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2012/03/16/vsphere-5-0-update-1-and-related-product-launches/">http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2012/03/16/vsphere-5-0-update-1-and-related-product-launches/</a><br> </div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-78324703024320480262012-03-12T17:10:00.001-04:002012-03-12T17:10:23.353-04:00IGNITE VM - SQL MONITORING FOR VSPHEREI learned about this product from <a href="http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1995-Cool-Tool-IgniteVM.html">NTPRO.NL</a> and he has a very nice video about the product.<div><br></div><div>The main company page is <a href="http://www.confio.com/English/Products/Ignite_VM.php">http://www.confio.com/English/Products/Ignite_VM.php</a></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-2708118780650601112012-02-27T20:44:00.001-05:002012-02-27T20:44:54.366-05:00VMWARE PARTNER EXCHANGE 2012 NOTESAndrew Miller (a new VCDX) took some excellent notes from the VMware Partner Exchange this year. Check them out here:<div><a href="http://www.thinkmeta.net/2012/02/session-notes-compendium-vmware-partner-exchange/">http://www.thinkmeta.net/2012/02/session-notes-compendium-vmware-partner-exchange/</a></div> <div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-63663310096773040472012-02-24T10:31:00.001-05:002012-02-24T10:31:45.878-05:00NICE EMC VNX/SQL SERVER 2008 PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION STUDY<a href="https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-13013">https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-13013</a> <div><br></div><div>Whitepaper: <a href="http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h8987-mssql-vnx5700-wp.pdf">http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h8987-mssql-vnx5700-wp.pdf</a></div><div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-61975415121764326512012-02-24T10:28:00.001-05:002012-02-24T10:28:50.004-05:00SORRY FOR THE LONG ABSENSE<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">Sorry folks but last year was terribly busy year with all the projects virtualization was involved with around Health Care. VMware deffinately has moved into servicing Tier 1 application needs.</p> <div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><br></p></div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">I was also busy with studying for the VCP 5 test which I passed on the first try...and yes I did think this was one of the more challenging certification tests I have seen from VMware for VCP level certification.</p> </div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><br></p></div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Late last year I started experimenting with the EMC Cellera and VNX virtual storage appliances trying to get some early experience for what I hoped was coming.</p> </div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><br></p></div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">But enough of the past and lets look into 2012 now. My vCenter was upgraded to vCenter 5 level in December and now that HP finally got their driver and firmware issues worked out for the HP BL460c G6 and G7 blades and vSphere 5 we are off on our migration to vSphere 5. I just recently moved my virtual vCenter and it separate SQL database vm off of old hardware to newer blades and like the better performance.</p> </div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><br></p></div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">In addition we have bought 2 EMC VNX 5500 units which I am looking forward to learning and using starting in March time frame. We have been wanting some EMC storage for a long time so very excited about this. I am most excited about the ability to do some LUN provisioning at the vCenter level. I really think the efficiency and control being closer to the virtual admin level will help make much wiser choices in the LUN work ahead in Migration to VMFS 5 (which to do right really needs to be an empty the LUN and reformat).</p> </div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><br></p></div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">I'll try my best to start sharing the many things I am learning!</p></div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-57761475202027678512012-02-22T09:12:00.001-05:002012-02-22T09:12:38.525-05:00VSPHERE 5 SYSLOG BUG AND WORKAROUNDI am using vCenter 5 and fully patched vSphere 5 (build shows 515841). I have VMware's new "Network Syslog Collector" running on my vCenter. I had about 6 new vSphere 5 servers pointing to the vCenter syslog server without issue. I moved my vCenter to a vSphere 5 server and updated the VMware tools and did a reboot. After this I noticed no servers showing in the "Network Syslog Collector" section of vCenter. Worked with VMware support and they are submitting as a bug. Also, apparently vCenter updates this only as you start the client, there is not refresh button, so as you fix this or add servers to this syslog collector you need to exit vCenter and come back in to see them.<div> <br></div><div>Temporary solution for now to fix follows but this would be a pain in large environments like ours.</div><div>Restarting syslog on vSphere 5 server:</div><div><div>/usr/lib/vmware/vmsyslog/bin/shutdown.sh</div> <div>ps | grep vmsyslog<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>/usr/lib/vmware/vmsyslog/bin/vmsyslogd</div><div>ps | grep vmsysl~ # ps | grep vmsyslog</div><div>62469 62469 vmsyslogd /bin/python</div> <div>62470 62469 vmsyslogd /bin/python</div><div>62471 62469 vmsyslogd /bin/python</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-51732913917924734522011-12-25T07:40:00.001-05:002011-12-25T07:40:10.789-05:00MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONEI hope you, your family, and all your loved ones have a very Merry Christmas! Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-7042588201644905902011-12-20T11:59:00.001-05:002011-12-20T11:59:46.410-05:00FREE VEEAM BACKUP & REPLICATION V6 LICENSEGet this hot one now for Christmas: <a href="http://snipurl.com/21b6v00">http://snipurl.com/21b6v00</a><div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-27598309049498400272011-12-08T14:10:00.001-05:002011-12-08T14:10:23.123-05:00PASSED VCP 5 EXAM!!!<div>On November 28, 2011 I passed my VCP 5 exam after a lot of study and lab time! It was probably the most challenging certification test I have taken since the VCP 2, 3, and 4 certifications.</div><div><br></div><div>As for blogging it has been a crazy year with virtualization keeping me so busy I have not been able to blog very much. Sorry about that folks...have to make that my New Years Resolution to do better on that front.</div> <div><br></div><div>I really think you need to sit down and use the products for this VCP 5 test. I would really like the test to take on characteristics more like that of the VCAP test with virtual LAB and you are asked to perform skills you should have to pass, instead of the current form.</div> <div><br></div><div>I would like to thank the following blogs and websites for their notes and infomation:</div><div><a href="http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2011/10/studying-for-vcp5-exam.html?m=1">http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2011/10/studying-for-vcp5-exam.html?m=1</a></div> <div><a href="http://www.petri.co.il/vcp5-exam.htm">http://www.petri.co.il/vcp5-exam.htm</a></div><div><a href="http://vinfrastructure.it/en/certifications-on-virtualization/vcp/vcp5/">http://vinfrastructure.it/en/certifications-on-virtualization/vcp/vcp5/</a></div> <div><a href="http://vinfrastructure.it/en/2011/10/vcp5-blueprint-with-study-notes-ita/">http://vinfrastructure.it/en/2011/10/vcp5-blueprint-with-study-notes-ita/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.valcolabs.com/">http://www.valcolabs.com/</a></div> <div><a href="http://www.vreference.com/vsphere-5-notes/">http://www.vreference.com/vsphere-5-notes/</a></div><div><a href="http://virtuallanger.com/vcp5/">http://virtuallanger.com/vcp5/</a></div><div><a href="http://vcp5.wordpress.com/">http://vcp5.wordpress.com/</a></div> <div><a href="http://damiankarlson.com/2011/11/01/vmware-vcp-5-resources/">http://damiankarlson.com/2011/11/01/vmware-vcp-5-resources/</a></div><div><a href="http://cosonok.blogspot.com/2011/10/vcp510-vcp-on-vsphere-5-exam-cram-notes.html">http://cosonok.blogspot.com/2011/10/vcp510-vcp-on-vsphere-5-exam-cram-notes.html</a></div> <div><a href="http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/">http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/</a></div><div>and the VMware education "What's New" Class!</div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-20501729306473400402011-11-13T20:18:00.001-05:002011-11-13T20:18:01.670-05:00MUST HAVE NEW FREE VMWARE ADMIN TOOL: UBERAlignThe tool and details: <a href="goog_1970599105">h</a><a href="ttp://nickapedia.com/2011/11/03/straighten-up-with-a-new-uber-tool-presenting-uberalign/">ttp://nickapedia.com/2011/11/03/straighten-up-with-a-new-uber-tool-presenting-uberalign/</a><br> Videos demonstrations of the tool in action: <br><a href="http://vimeo.com/31555866" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/31555866</a><br><a href="http://vimeo.com/31551540" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/31551540</a><br> <br>Originally learned of the tool from here: <a href="http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/11/first-of-a-series-of-holiday-giftsuberalign.html" target="_blank">http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/11/first-of-a-series-of-holiday-giftsuberalign.html</a><br> <br><br> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-20188586126574134242011-09-29T17:52:00.001-04:002011-09-29T17:52:57.495-04:00VMWORLD 2011 VSPHERE 5 AND POWERCLI POSTERSGet them here: <div><a href="http://www.virtu-al.net/2011/09/05/vmware-management-with-powercli-5-0/">http://www.virtu-al.net/2011/09/05/vmware-management-with-powercli-5-0/</a><br><div><a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2011/09/vsphere-50-cli-reference-poster.html">http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2011/09/vsphere-50-cli-reference-poster.html</a></div> </div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-65908431498620715892011-09-23T15:33:00.001-04:002011-09-23T15:33:19.302-04:00VMworld 2011 PRESENTATION DOWNLOADS AVAILABLEFinally, I could hardly wait for these to catch all the sessions I missed this year!<div><a href="http://www.vmworld.com/login.jspa">www.vmworld.com/login.jspa</a></div><div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-74460505551701775312011-08-28T21:52:00.001-04:002011-08-28T21:52:24.345-04:00VMWORLD 2011 SUNDAY:I didn't have any travel issues due to Irene the Hurricane that went up the east coast. I got here at 9:30am Vegas time...and the Venetian had my room ready which was really awesome. After some breakfast and unpacking I headed down to registration at about 1:15pm and was surprised to see it already open and allowing a very fast registration process. Next I headed over to get in line for the opening of the Hand-On Labs. They have really done another great job this year and the crowd and Lab Crew were all showing their excitement. I did lab 16 the autodeploy which went well except their were some performance or some type of problem when installing PowerCLI which took about 15 minutes.<div> <br></div><div>After my lab I needed to recharge on some food and that is when I saw this massive registration line, and a very long waiting line for the Labs.</div><div><br></div><div>A lab person came up and said it would be 2 hours before the next batch of those in line would be allowed in. Luckily, VMware has noticed the problems with registration and issued this statement:</div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><b>"Registration is extended to 8pm tonight. We apologize for the long line. Reg also open at 6:30am Mon before sessions."</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><b><br></b></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="3">Well time to rest up and charge up all the gadgets... tomorrow will be a long and exciting day!</font></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-80762205064538462582011-08-25T06:30:00.001-04:002011-08-25T06:30:13.270-04:00VSPHERE 5 IS NOW RELEASED!<a href="http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0">http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0</a> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-33358004274601904582011-08-23T12:55:00.001-04:002011-08-23T12:55:58.959-04:00VCP 5 MOCK EXAM NOW AVAILABLE<div><a href="http://ntpro.nl">ntpro.nl</a> announcement: <a href="http://alturl.com/mypfi">http://alturl.com/mypfi</a></div><div>My learn site: <a href="http://mylearn.vmware.com/quiz.cfm?item=24908&ui=www_cert">http://mylearn.vmware.com/quiz.cfm?item=24908&ui=www_cert</a></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-38974335033215116422011-08-18T15:12:00.001-04:002011-08-18T15:12:55.649-04:00WHAT'S NEW IN VSPHERE 5 CLASSI'm in the new "What's new in vSphere 5" class this week (2 days) required for VCP 5 certification.<div>The class and labs are going smoothly and I think it covers some good topics.</div><div><br></div><div> I was also in the vSphere 5 beta program.</div><div><br></div><div>One item I learned today this is cool: while doing a ssh session to ESXi troubleshooting console you can type "dcui" to get the GUI now!</div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-60772698378843009302011-08-18T13:20:00.001-04:002011-08-18T13:20:33.273-04:00BIOS OF ALL VMWARE CERTIFIED DESIGN EXPERTS<a href="http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=15652&ui=www_cert">http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=15652&ui=www_cert</a><div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-16506703452624161632011-08-18T13:09:00.001-04:002011-08-18T13:09:14.178-04:00REGISTER FOR VMWORLD GENERAL SESSION WEBCAST<a href="http://bit.ly/o8Byh1">http://bit.ly/o8Byh1</a><div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-41590623969187919472011-08-18T12:39:00.001-04:002011-08-18T12:39:28.415-04:00SRM 5 DEMO AND TECHNICAL VIDEODemo: <a href="http://vimeo.com/26304215">http://vimeo.com/26304215</a><div>Technical Video: <a href="http://vimeo.com/26304956">http://vimeo.com/26304956</a></div><div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-24896051795781833462011-08-03T22:24:00.001-04:002011-08-03T22:24:00.807-04:00VSPHERE 5 LICENSE VALIDATOR SCRIPT<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/upgrade-center/vsphere-license-validator-script.html">http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/upgrade-center/vsphere-license-validator-script.html</a><div> <br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-45640150897482593312011-08-03T17:16:00.001-04:002011-08-03T17:16:44.776-04:00VSPHERE 5 LICENSING UPDATE OFFICIAL<a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/08/changes-to-the-vram-licensing-model-introduced-on-july-12-2011.html">http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/08/changes-to-the-vram-licensing-model-introduced-on-july-12-2011.html</a><div> <br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-67231659371968373572011-08-03T13:39:00.001-04:002011-08-03T13:39:10.533-04:00VMWARE CHANGING VSPHERE 5 LICENSING AGAINSource: <a href="http://alturl.com/bqm8z">http://alturl.com/bqm8z</a><div><br></div><div><p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">The article states VMware is bumping up the vRAM entitlements: vSphere Enterprise Plus (48 GB to 96 GB), vSphere Enterprise (32 GB to 64 GB), vSphere 5 Essentials, Essentials Plus and Standard (24 GB to 32 GB), and the free vSphere hypervisor will jump from 8 GB to 32 GB).</span></p><p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"> See the source link for more details.</span></p></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-50140326260001802242011-07-25T09:39:00.001-04:002011-07-25T09:39:39.809-04:00VSPHERE 5 SOLVES VMWARE VIEW BOOT STORMS<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%"><span style="color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://virtualizationreview.com/blogs/virtual-insider/2011/07/vsphere-5-top-10-view-accelerator.aspx">http://virtualizationreview.com/blogs/virtual-insider/2011/07/vsphere-5-top-10-view-accelerator.aspx</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">It appears vSphere 5 will cache the bits of the master image in memory on each ESXi host, so when vms boot they are redirected to boot from the cache bits. This will reduce of completely eliminate the boot storm issues.</p> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-79606818729244750452011-07-19T08:11:00.001-04:002011-07-19T08:11:21.542-04:00VMworld 2011 Scheduler Builder is open!<a href="http://www.vmworld.com/schedulebuilder-login.jspa">http://www.vmworld.com/schedulebuilder-login.jspa</a><div><br></div><div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027998737642021006.post-31663119821471050282011-07-16T13:40:00.001-04:002011-07-16T13:40:34.593-04:00EXTENSIVE LIST OF VSPHERE 5 LINKS<a href="http://vsphere-land.com/vsphere-links/vsphere-5-links.html">http://vsphere-land.com/vsphere-links/vsphere-5-links.html</a><div><br></div> Jay Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04777483228531364989noreply@blogger.com0