The Partner Exchange 2012 Catalog has been released. Click Here to view the full content listing. I have listed details around the sessions I will be presenting at PEX 2012 with my colleagues. Session 1269: Upgrading the vCloud Solution Stack in an End to End Environment Abstract: Although there are many individual guides on upgrading the different components on a vCloud deployment, none take into account the overall process. This session is intended to outline the entire process in a four phase approach. This process was devleopmed in house at VMware and already used at other customers successfully. Although the process was developed around moving from 1.0 to 1.5, the process as outlined can be used for other major upgrades that will be coming from VMware. Presenters: Chris Colotti and David Hill Session 1359: Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure Abstract: This session will discuss the various design considerations when architecting the […]
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Multiple character repeat through vSphere Client console
This article was written by Duncan Epping over at Yellow-Bricks.com. I have posted here purely for my own ability to find this setting in the future. I needed it today while building vShield Manager VM across a WAN Link. Every time I tried to type the username admin it entered it as aaadddmmmiiinnn obviously very frustrating. This is how you fix it. Power off the VM Edit Settings Click the Options Tab Click “General” Click “Configuration Parameters” Click “Add Row” Enter the name: keyboard.typematicMinDelay Enter the value: 2000000
Extra Cyber Monday deal from Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman
Straight from Duncan Epping’s blog site: As multiple people asked for it, Frank and I decided to also put the 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive on sale. Just wanted to inform you guys about it. Here are the links: vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive – £4.59 Once again, please note that Amazon might charge extra if you are ordering/downloading the book from remote. We cannot control that unfortunately. Never the less, this is the bargain of the year for sure when it comes to VMware books. No book out their with such an insane price/page/quality ratio!
Looking up Managed Object Reference (MoRef) in vCenter Server
I have been playing around today looking up the MoRef’s within vCenter to match up with the ones being shown within the vCloud Director logs. The kb article below shows how to look up the MoRef’s in vCenter. This is a really handy way of finding out which VM is referred to from another product. The easiest way to lookup the MoRef is to open your browser and point to: https://[FQDN_vCenter]/mob/ Extract from the KB article: This article provides information about looking up a Managed Object Reference (MoRef) in vCenter Server. This helps you determine which virtual machine, host, or datastore a product is referring to in its log bundle. For example, a virtual machine is denoted by vm-xxxx in the VMware Site Recovery Manager logs or the vpxa logs on an ESX host. KB article :: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1017126
Restart all services on ESXi through SSH
I had an issue on one of my ESXi hosts in my home lab this morning, where it seemed the host had become completely un-responsive. SSH was still working, so I restarted all the services on that host using the command listed below. This works on ESXi 4 and 5, but I don’t know if it is a supported method. Note: This command stops all services on the host and restarts them. There is no guarantee this will not affect VMs running on that host. ./sbin/services.sh restart You will then see the following output as all the services stop and restart Running vmware-fdm stop Stopping vmware-fdm:success Running vslad stop Stopping vslad… Success. Running svm-autostart stop Running sfcbd-watchdog stop Running usbarbitrator stop watchdog-usbarbitrator: Terminating watchdog with PID 5625 usbarbitrator stopped. Running vmware-vpxa stop Stopping vmware-vpxa:success Running wsman stop Stopping openwsmand Running slpd stop Stopping slpd Running vprobed stop watchdog-vprobed: Terminating watchdog […]