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Presentasjon vSphere 4 What’s new oppdatering av Stein Wilhelmsen

Lars Jostein — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:14:40 +0000

Stein Wilhelmsen

Stein Wilhelmsen, Senior Partner SE, VMware Norge holdt en presentasjon om VMware vSphere 4 og ”whats new” og ”Virtual Data Center Operating System” under VirtualPower 09. Presentasjonen med video finner dere her: http://commaxx.exss.no/webtv/pages/?clipid=22&sid=0 (ca 45 minutter)

VMware ESX minnehåndtering

Lars Jostein — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:46:58 +0000

Arnim Van Lieshout har skrevet tre veldig gode artikler om VMware ESX minnehåndtering, noe som burde være interessant lesing for alle som jobber med VMware ESX.

Part 1: Grunnleggende om allocated memory, reservations, limits, shares og resource pools. http://www.van-lieshout.com/2009/04/esx-memory-management-part-1/

Part2: Hvordan den enkelte virtuelle maskin bruker minne http://www.van-lieshout.com/2009/05/esx-memory-management-part-2/

Part3: Transparent Page Sharing (TPS), ballooning, tips til bruk av esxtop, swapping og idle memory tax. http://www.van-lieshout.com/2009/05/esx-memory-management-%e2%80%93-part-3/

De som ønsker å gå i dybden for hvordan limit innstillinger påvirker de virtuelle maskinene bør lese denne bloggartikkelen av VMGuru.com, Scott Herold: http://www.vmguru.com/index.php/articles-mainmenu-62/mgmt-and-monitoring-mainmenu-68/96-memory-behavior-when-vm-limits-are-set

VMware vSpehere

Lars Jostein — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:50:17 +0000

VMware “lanserte” vSphere 4 i dag og her er noen gode linker for en dypdykk i produktene.

VMware.com – vSphere Product page
VMTN – Introducing VMware vSphere 4 – The Industry’s First Cloud Operating System
VMTN – VMware vSphere Resources And Webcasts Customers Should Know About!
VMTN Community – VMware vSphere Community is here – plus some rearrangement…
DABCC.com – Vmware vSphere – Intial Comparison with Hyper-V and Xen
Vroom – Database sizing charts for vSphere 4.0
VMware (pdf’s) – vSphere list of Key Features
VMware (pdf’s) – vStorage: What’s New Whitepaper
VMware (pdf’s) – vNetwork: What’s New Whitepaper
VMware (pdf’s) – vSphere Pricing, Packaging, and Licensing Whitepaper
HyperVizor – The ultimate vSphere4 learning path
SearchVMware.com – A guide to VMware vSphere 4
Redmondmag.com – Vmware Unveils vSphere

..og for de som virkelig er på hugget kan vSphere screensaver lastes ned fra denne linken..: http://www.xs4all.nl/~omerta/vsphere_screensaver.zip

Management and monitoring of virtual environments

Lars Jostein — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:17:28 +0000

Today I had a presentation about System Center Operations Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. The presentation was held in conjunction with a Microsoft breakfast seminar. The topic was management and monitoring of virtual environments.

SCVMM SCOM 181198

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The presentation is written in Norwegian.

Microsoft server software and supported virtualization environments

Lars Jostein — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:18:05 +0000

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006

Looking forward to read more about VI3 architecture

Lars Jostein — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:21:06 +0000

After a long time of waiting I finally received the book VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide and Advanced Operations Guide. 803 pages of pure VMware VI3 tips for architecture, administration and best practices. I have just reached chapter two and I am looking forward to read the rest of the book.

The book looks so far very good, too.

VMware have now released the full version of VMware Infrastructure Toolkit 1.0

Lars Jostein — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:05:08 +0000

With the VI toolkit you can automate standard management tasks like cloning, moving, starting or stopping virtual machines and hosts true PowerShell. VI Toolkit takses advantage of the exisiting VMware Infrastructure SDK and translate it into a PowerShell interface.

http://www.vmware.com/sdk/vitk_win/index.html?src=EM_0803_VMW_OTHER_VITOOLKIT_DOWNLOAD

After you have installed PowerShell and VI Toolkit on your computer, you have to add the VI Toolkit powershell snapin:

# List the snappins you allready have installed:
PS C:\> get-pssnapin

# List registered snapins:
PS C:\> Get-PSSnapin -Registered

# Add the VMware.VimAutomation.Core snappin:
PS C:\> Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

# Connect to your Virtual Center server:
PS C:\> Get-VIServer x.x.x.x -User admin -Password xxxxxxx

# List virtual maschines who are powered on:
PS C:\> get-vm | Where-Object {$_.powerstate -eq ‘PoweredOn’}

VMware ESX Server 3.0.3 is available for download

Lars Jostein — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:18:12 +0000

Release higlights:

Support for Quad-Core AMD Opteron 8300 and 2300 series processor families (codename Barcelona)
Support for Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5200 series processors (codename Wolfdale)
Enhanced patch management
Support for new / updated guest OS; Windows 2003 R2 Data Center Edition and Red Hat Enterprise 5.1
Update for service console from RHEL3 U8 to RHEL3 U9

http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/releasenotes_esx303.html#resolvedissues

Some great links for virtualization security best practices

Lars Jostein — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:14:25 +0000

Guidance on best practices of VMware Virtual Infrastructure:
http://www.vmware.com/overview/security/best_practices.html

Security implications of the Virtual Data Center:
http://www.malanmurphy.com/Security_Implications_of_the_Virtual.pdf

Security technical implementation guide (Department Of Defense USA)
http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/stig/esx_server_stig_v1r1_final.pdf

I would also recommend to read the whitepaper VMware VI Architecture Overview:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi_architecture_wp.pdf