A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
So, VMware 5.0 has a new Consolidate menu item located in Inventory | Virtual Machine | Snapshot menu. What does it do? Before I get to that, let’s review what the other menu items do, because Consolidate only makes sense after you understand what can go wrong with snapshots. First, snapshots are a terrific feature. […]
So, last week, I needed some assistance from VMware support. I used the feature available in the Administration menu | Export System Logs menu item to generate support logs. But, I did so while focused upon a host server that does not have any local host storage. Guess what happened? Well, without local host storage, […]
VMware’s vCenter server has some build-in alarms and alerting functionality. But, sometimes, a production environment wants to integrate with an existing solution or use a more comprehensive solution that also alerts when problems happen with physical servers. In any case, you might need the new solution to query the VMware environment, which is best achieved […]
As many of you are probably aware, VMware 5.0 Update 1 was released on March 15th, 2012. I have had an opportunity to patch my ESXi 5.0 hosts and update the vCenter Server. This blog post contains the steps used to update the vCenter Server. Before you begin, gather the credentials you will need in […]