sysdigg» VMware ESX 4.0 http://www.sysdigg.com Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:28:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Can’t SSH after vSphere 4.1 Upgrade? http://www.sysdigg.com/cant-ssh-after-vsphere-4-1-upgrade http://www.sysdigg.com/cant-ssh-after-vsphere-4-1-upgrade#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:28:44 +0000 julio http://www.sysdigg.com/?p=3886 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Can’t SSH after vSphere 4.1 Upgrade?", url: "http://www.sysdigg.com/cant-ssh-after-vsphere-4-1-upgrade" });]]> Configure the file /etc/security/access.conf by adding the users that need ssh access to the console.

Example Below.

+:roo:ALL

+:yourownuser:ALL

+:vpxuser:ALL

+:vslauser:ALL

-:ALL:ALL

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]]> http://www.sysdigg.com/cant-ssh-after-vsphere-4-1-upgrade/feed 0 Deleting old Netapp snapshots with System Manager http://www.sysdigg.com/deleting-old-netapp-snapshots-with-system-manager http://www.sysdigg.com/deleting-old-netapp-snapshots-with-system-manager#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:13:39 +0000 julio http://www.sysdigg.com/?p=3761 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Deleting old Netapp snapshots with System Manager", url: "http://www.sysdigg.com/deleting-old-netapp-snapshots-with-system-manager" });]]> 1) Open System manager

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2) Expand the Filer you want.

 

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3) After selecting the filer, expand “Storage”, click on “Volumes”, select the “Snapshot Copies” tab to see the snapshots. From this view you can delete any snapshot older then 2 weeks ” Make sure is not a snap mirrored volume”.
This doesn’t happen often, but is a good practice to go in and check your snapshots once a month to make sure they are deleting correctly.

 

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]]> http://www.sysdigg.com/deleting-old-netapp-snapshots-with-system-manager/feed 0 What’s included in VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus http://www.sysdigg.com/whats-included-in-vmware-vsphere-4-essentials-plus http://www.sysdigg.com/whats-included-in-vmware-vsphere-4-essentials-plus#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:16:21 +0000 saif http://www.sysdigg.com/?p=1269 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What’s included in VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus", url: "http://www.sysdigg.com/whats-included-in-vmware-vsphere-4-essentials-plus" });]]>


VMware vSphere 4  Essentials Plus provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to virtualize upto three physical servers to reduce hardware costs while ensuring superior application availability and data protection.

What’s included in vSphere Essentials Plus includes:
• VMware ESXi and VMware ESX (deployment-time choice)
• VMware vStorage VMFS
• Four-way Virtual SMP
• VMware vCenter Server Agent
• VMware vStorage APIs / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
• VMware vCenter Update Manager
• VMware HA
• VMware Data Recovery
• VMware vCenter Server for Essentials

vSphere 4 Essentials Plus is available for USD$2,995. Support and Subscription (SnS) is sold separately. A minimum of one year of SnS is required.


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]]> http://www.sysdigg.com/whats-included-in-vmware-vsphere-4-essentials-plus/feed 0 VMware vSphere Editions -Why VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus? http://www.sysdigg.com/vmware-vsphere-editions-why-vmware-vsphere-enterprise-plus http://www.sysdigg.com/vmware-vsphere-editions-why-vmware-vsphere-enterprise-plus#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:00:10 +0000 saif http://www.sysdigg.com/?p=1254 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "VMware vSphere Editions -Why VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus?", url: "http://www.sysdigg.com/vmware-vsphere-editions-why-vmware-vsphere-enterprise-plus" });]]> VMware Inc. is leader in Virtualization technologies and they have maintained their leadership by releasing their new rebranded product line – VMware vSphere 4.

VMware  vSphere 4.0 is a product suite that includes VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESX 4.0, VMware HA, VMware DRS, VMware Thin Provisoning, VMware Data Recovery, Storage VMotion, Host Profiles, vNetwork distributed Switch and Third party Mutlipathing like EMC PowerPath.

There is great deal of confusion with VMware vSphere product Editions on what’s features comes with which edition of VMware vSphere 4.In this article i will try to cover what’s feature is available with which edition of VMware vSphere.

VMware ESXi 4: Free version of VMware ESXi Single servers comes with support for 6 cores per processor, 4-way vSMP Support, 256GB Memory support for the Host server and Thin Provisoning.

VMware vSphere Essential:VMware vSphere 4 Essential Edition is targeted for small busines customers which comes with VMware ESX 4, vCenter server for managing Essentials VMware ESX 4 hosts, 6 core/processor support,4-way vSMP Support,256GB support for physical ESX host,Thin Provisoning, VC agent,Update Manager,VMsafe,vStorage API only.

VMware vSphere Essential Plus: This Edition of vSphere 4 is also targeted for small business customers, Features are same comapred to VMware vSphere Essesntials but also includes HA and vCenter Data Recovery Software.vCenter Data Recover is advanced backup recovery software provided as VMware virtual appliance for performing  file as well as image backup/recoveries.

VMware vSphere Standard: vSphere 4 Standard edition comes with all features available in VMware vSphere Essential plus but comes with Foundation & stabdard vCenter Server, vCenter data recovery tool is not available with this Edition

VMware vSphere Advanced: vSphere 4 Advanced Edition comes with all features available in vSphere Standard Edition along with vCenter Server Standard. Advanced Edition of vSphere comes with 12 core per processor support,VMware HA,vCenter Data recovery, Hot Add feature,Fault Tolerant , vShield Zone and VMotion.Storage vMotion and DRS feature is missing in this Edition.

vSphere Enterpise and Enterprise Plus:VMware vSphere Enterprise Edition comes with vCenter, VMware ESX 4 with 6 core per processor support,ability to support 256 GB Physical server Memory , all features that are included in VMware vSphere Advance plus VMware DRS and Storage VMotion.vSphere Enterprise Plus is new product Edition  introduced in VMware product line , since VMware ESX 4 is fully 64 bit you can add more memory on Physical ESX 4 Server. Enterprise Plus allows you to go beyond 256GB Memory with capability to support 512 GB Memory on Physical ESX 4 host and ability to support 12 core per Processor and allows 8-Way SMP support. The most important feature i like in vSphere Suite is Host profile which is only Available in vSphere 4 Enterprise Plus. Along with Fault tolreance (VMware FT), VMware HA, VMware DRS and VMware Storage Motion , the vSphere 4 Enterprise edition includes – vNetwork Dstributed Switch, Host profile and Third Party Multipathing.

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]]> http://www.sysdigg.com/vmware-vsphere-editions-why-vmware-vsphere-enterprise-plus/feed 0 What’s new in VMware vCenter 4 http://www.sysdigg.com/whats-new-in-vmware-vcenter-4 http://www.sysdigg.com/whats-new-in-vmware-vcenter-4#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:27:28 +0000 saif http://www.sysdigg.com/?p=1247 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What’s new in VMware vCenter 4", url: "http://www.sysdigg.com/whats-new-in-vmware-vcenter-4" });]]>

VMware renamed their product branding with release of VMware ESX 4.0, VMware Virtual Center server is now called as VMware vCenter . The new VMware vCenter 4 comes loaded with several new features.VMware vCenter has advanced search feature added , so if you are running several hundreds VM’ you can use advanced search capability to search by name, Operating system Type, datastore names and also you can search those datastores running out of space.

What’s new in VMware vCenter 4.0

VMware vCenter 4 User Interface Features added:

  • VMware vCenter 4 added new home menu to their Front end user interface
  • VMware vCenter comes with enhanced Inventory search menu.
  • VMware vCenter has Storage VMotion GUI
  • Vmware vCenter 4 comes with License Reporting.

What’s new in vCenter Infrastrastructure Monitoring & Monitoring

  • vCenter 4 comes with Hardware Monitoring (CIM).
  • Storage Maps and Reporting.
  • Resource usage stats.
  • vCenter Service status
  • Improved Performance charts,Events and alarms.
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]]> http://www.sysdigg.com/whats-new-in-vmware-vcenter-4/feed 0 VMware ESX 4 (vSphere 4.0) finally gets 64 bit Kernel http://www.sysdigg.com/vmware-esx-4-vsphere-40-finally-gets-64-bit-kernel http://www.sysdigg.com/vmware-esx-4-vsphere-40-finally-gets-64-bit-kernel#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:16:48 +0000 saif http://www.sysdigg.com/?p=1236 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "VMware ESX 4 (vSphere 4.0) finally gets 64 bit Kernel", url: "http://www.sysdigg.com/vmware-esx-4-vsphere-40-finally-gets-64-bit-kernel" });]]>
VMware ESX 4.0 or vSphere is finally a true 64 bit Virtuailization OS. Vmware vSphere is the next major version of VMware infrastructure 3, the virtual datacenter operating systems is finally uses 64 bit kernel. VMware ESX 3.5 uses 32 bit Kernel, along with wide varities of features added to VMware ESX 4 , the biggest one is core 64 bit kernel.

What’s new in VMware ESX 4.0 or vSphere 4.0 ?

VMware ESX 4.0 has some advanced power management capabilities, 64-bit host with 64-bit Service Console, Enhanced Memory, Storage and networking Features with distributed netwoking.

VMware ESX 4.0 Host Features :

64-bit Service Console :The Redhat Enterprise based Linux service console for VMware ESX 4.0 is now true 64-bit.The new Service console runs on Redhat Enterpise 64-bit kernel.You can verisy this by running uname -m command on ESX 4.0 Linux host which returns x86_64.

VMware ESX 4.0 now uses 64-bit VMkernel : The VMkernel, a core component of the ESX/ESXi 4.0 hypervisor, is now 64-bit. This provides greater host physical memory capacity , enhanced performance and more seamless hardware support than earlier releases.VMware ESX 4.0 /vSphere 4.0 now can support  upto 512 GB of physical Memory on 64-bit hadrware platforms.

VMware ESX 4.0/vSphere 4.0  Host Memory — ESX/ESXi 4.0 now supports systems with up to 512GB of Memory/RAM. See the Systems Compatibility Guide Additions and Modifications for a list of systems for which 512GB host memory is supported.

VMware ESX 4.0/vSphere 4.0 CPU Support :VMware ESX 4.0/vSphere 4.0 now can support upto  64 Logical CPUs and 256 Virtual CPUs Per Host — ESX/ESXi 4.0 provides headroom for more virtual machines per host and the ability to achieve even higher consolidation ratios on larger machines.

Keep reading more on VMware ESX 4.0

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