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ESXi host not reachable on Network – How to Troubleshoot

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This post is going to explain you the troubleshooting experience of one of my recent issues which was caused by Pause Flood issue on HP Virtual Connect. Possibly All VMware Administrators will aware about the basic network troubleshooting like try to reach the host via ping, check for Physical NIC failures, Cable connectivity, and switch port failures or even router failure. This post is not going to explain you with this procedures for basic troubleshooting. If you would like to familiar with network related commands in ESXi ,please take a look at my previous posts:

ESXi5 Command Line Reference – Networking Part1

ESXi5 Command Line Reference – Networking Part2

I got a alert from the monitoring team for one of the ESXi host is not reachable on the network.  I thought may be PSOD (Purple Screen of Death) on host. I assume to reboot the host and fix the PSOD. When i connect to the ILO of my ESXi host, Host was Up and i tried to reach via ping but it is not reachable. I suspect issue could be problem with the Network adapter but it is not. Again thought to check the physical cabling of the host .That is also good. I checked with network team for switch port failures and it is also good.  I have verified the status of the network adapters of ESXi host from ILO . It was showing all NICs are down.

ESXi-Network adapater-down_1

My ESXi host is running on Blade server and we are using HP virtual Connect as the interconnect for our servers in the blade chassis. I suspect ther could be something wrong with my virtual connect. So decided to analyze my HP Virtual connect Logs. I found the error message “Port was  disabled because a pause flood was detected”  from my Virtual connect System Logs.

PauseFlood_1

When i checked the ports status of My Virtual Connect interconnect Bays, It displays the below information:

Connect to the HP virtual Connect -> Hardware -> Click on InterConnect Bays -> Click Bay 1 or Bay 2 ->Verify the status under Server Ports tab. It displays the Port status of “Not Linked/Pause Flood Detected”. It confirms the issue was caused by pause Flood. In some cases, a flex-10 port can enter into disabled state due to the triggering of “pause-flood”, or network-loop.

Pause Flood_2

You can confirm the same port status using Virtual Connect Manager CLI.

Connect to Virtual connect using SSH and Execute the below command

Show port-protect

Pause Flood_3

 

What is Pause Flood

We understood this issue was cause by Pause Flood. Let us understand what is Pause Flood. Ethernet switch interfaces use pause frame based flow control mechanisms to control data flow. When a pause frame is received on a flow control enabled interface, the transmit operation is stopped for the pause duration specified in the pause frame. All other frames destined for this interface are queued up. If another pause frame is received before the previous pause timer expires, the pause timer is refreshed to the new pause duration value. If a steady stream of pause frames is received for extended periods of time, the transmit queue for that interface continues to grow until all queuing resources are exhausted. This condition severely impacts the switch operation on other interfaces.

In addition, all protocol operations on the switch are impacted because of the inability to transmit protocol frames. Both port pause and priority-based pause frames can cause the same resource exhaustion condition. VC provides the ability to monitor server downlink ports for pause flood conditions and take protective action by disabling the port. The default polling interval is 10 seconds and is not user configurable. VC provides system logs and SNMP traps for events related to pause flood detection. This feature operates at the physical port level. When a pause flood condition is detected on a Flex-10 physical port, all Flex-10 logical ports associated with physical ports are disabled. When the pause flood protection feature is enabled, this feature detects pause flood conditions on server downlink ports and disables the port.

How to Fix Pause Flood Issue:

The port remains disabled until an administrative action is taken. The administrative action involves the following steps:

Action Plan 1: – Temporary and immediate Fix is to Re-enable the disabled ports on the VC interconnect modules using below method

1. Connect to your Virtual Connect using SSH

2. Execute the below command

 reset-port protect

reset port-protect

3. Verify the port status again using the below command and ensure no port’s protect types are reported as “Pause Flood”

Show port-protect

show port-protect

That’s it the above command fixed my issue immediately.

Action Plan 2: Update the Drivers and Firmwares

Resolve the issue with the NIC on the server causing the continuous pause generation. This might include updating the NIC firmware and device drivers.

I tried the action plan 1 and immediately my ESXi host started reaching from network ping. That’s it. It resolved my issue. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading !!!. Be Social and share it in social media if you feel worth sharing it.


Congragulations !!! – 5 Lucky Winners of VMware Arena’s Prize Giveaway “VMware ESXi Cookbook”

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First of all , I would like to thank each and every one who participated in the price giveaway and liked the VMware Arena’s official Facebook page. It is really a overwhelming response from the readers. I wish you all will provide the same kind of support throughout my tenure. I am happy to announce the 5 lucky winners of my book “VMware ESXi cookbook”. 5 Lucky winners are as follows.

Hinakhan  - hinafkhan@ymail.com

Mahesh Kumar - maheshkumar533@gmail.com

 Anto – antoajp@gmail.com

Sudha – Sudak80@gmail.com

Chandan - chandan@orange.mu

Congragulations for the 5 Lucky winners. All the 5 lucky winners are completely system generated and i don’t have control to choose anyone as winner. This prize giveaway is conducted with integrity. I ensure integrity in all my giveaways. Please find the prize giveaway generated by the system.

Prize Giveaway- VMware Arena

Once again congratulations for the 5 lucky winners and email notification has been already sent to winners to notify them. They will receive the ebooks of “VMware ESXi Cookbook”  shortly from packt publications. Thanks for everyone’s support. I wish to see the same kind of support to VMware Arena.

Veeam Free Study Guide – Microsoft Certification Exam 74-409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

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Veeam Backup ,Market leader in Virtualization backup and #1 backup software for Virtualization products like VMware and Hyper-v. Veeam is so famous for their contribution to the virtualization community in means of sponsoring lot of virtualization related events , free study materials and giveaways to the virtualization community.

Veeam is providing Free study guide for Microsoft Certification Exam 74-409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center.This study guide f covers each of the exam objectives. Read this study guide to learn how to create and configure virtual machine settings, virtual machine storage and virtual networks.

Download Free Study Guide for Microsoft Certification Exam 74-409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

Veeam - Microsoft Certification 74-409

This study guide was prepared by Orin Thomas, an MVP, an MCT and has a string of Microsoft MCSE and MCITP certifications. This study guide covers below 8 chapters. It is real worth study guide who are preparing the Microsoft certification  Exam 74-409.

Chapter 1: Virtual Machine Settings
Chapter 2: Virtual Machine Storage
Chapter 3: Hyper-V Virtual Networks and Virtualization Networking
Chapter 4: Implementing Virtual Machines
Chapter 5: Managing Virtualization Hosts and Infrastructure
Chapter 6: Hyper-V Failover Clustering and Failover Clustering Roles
Chapter 7: Virtual Machine Movement
Chapter 8: Monitoring and Hyper-V Replica

I hope this is informative for you. Download the study guide and prepare well for the certification. All the best for the certification and Thanks to Veeam for providing such a wonderful contribution to virtualization community.

VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 Hardening Guide Released

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vSphere Hardening Guide is one of my favorite reference to configure my vSphere environment. VMware Released GA version of vSphere 5.5 Update 1 Hardening Guide on 6-June-2014. It gives Complete list of security settings to configure your vSphere components secure to comply with various standards like PCI. This guide covers the security settings for Virtual Machines,ESXi host, vNetwork, vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, SSO, WebClient and VCSA. Security Hardening Guides provide prescriptive guidance for customers on how to deploy and operate VMware products in a secure manner. Guides for vSphere are provided in an easy to consume spreadsheet format, with rich metadata to allow for guideline classification and risk assessment.

There are  5 New additions to vSphere 5.5 Update 1 Hardening Guide.

vSphere 5.5 Update 1 Hardening Guide -New Addtions

Enable-VGA-only-Mode : Many Server-class virtual machines need only a standard VGA console (typically a Unix/Linux server system). Enabling this setting removes additional unnecessary functionality beyond disabling 3D.

Disable-non-essential-3D-features : It is suggested that 3D be disabled on virtual machines that do not require 3D functionality, (e.g. server or desktops not using 3D applications).

Verify-nfc-ssl : NFC (Network File Copy) is the name of the mechanism used to migrate or clone a VM between two ESXi hosts over the network. By default, SSL is enabled for provisioning (clone and migrate) NFC data traffic.

Use-unique-roles : In order to maintaine least privlege access and as a compainion guideline with using unique service accounts, creating a specific role for each of those accounts is recommended

change-sso-admin-password : The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) during SSO configuration sets the default password of administrator@vsphere.local to a default value automatically if you select “Default Configuration”. The password must be changed manually. Windows SSO prompts during install for a default password. VCSA only prompts when using a “Custom Configuration”. This does not apply to Windows SSO installations as those are prompted for a password during installation.

Apart from the 5 New additions, changes to 20 items and 3 items are removed from the existing version of vSphere Hardening Guide. Download the vSphere Hardening Guide .

vSphere 5.5 Update 1 Hardening Guide

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Access VMWare VMDK virtual disk from Windows

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This simple post is going to explain you the procedure to mount your VMware VMDK virtual disk as windows drive. This may be needed incase if you want to access your VMware Virtual Machine files from your windows machine or to transfer some files from windows machine to your virtual machine or vice versa. To achieve this , you must have one of VMware products like VMware Workstation or Player installed on your windows machine. Let’s jump in to the procedure to mount your VMware VMDK virtual disk in your windows machine. Usually, VMware Virtual disks are in .VMDK file format. It will be located on the same directory, where you virtual machines files are stored. There are 2 different ways to mount your VMDK virtual disk into windows machine. Let’s discuss both methods in this post.

Method 1:

Open your VMware Workstation, and Click on File and Select Map Virtual Disks

VMDK Disk-Mapping Window machine-1

Click on Browse and browse towards the location of your VMDK virtual disk file and verify the volume size. It is always recommended  to open the file in read-only mode to avoid unnecessary data loss or drive corruption. Select the Drive Letter from the drop down by your choice and click on OK. That;s it your VMDK will be mounted on your Windows Machine with the drive letter specified.

VMDK Disk-Mapping Window machine-2That’s it. you can access the VMDK virtual disk from your windows explorer.

Method 2

You can browse directly the location VMDK files and right-click on the VMDk file which you want to mount in windows machine and select Map Virtual Disk and Select the VMDK to mount.

VMDK Disk-Mapping Window machine-3

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Unable to Power on 64-bit VM’s on Nested ESXi Host

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This post will be useful for the vSphere Home labs. It is not so easy to buy multiple hardware for each ESXi servers running on your lab systems. You may need to run ESXi host as virtual machine on top of your physical ESXi host which is referred as “Nested ESXi host”. Have you tried to run 64 bit operating system on your nested ESXi host?. If yes, Then you may have come across the trouble to power on 64-bit operating systems on top of your nested ESXi. Below error message will appear when you try to power on your 64-bit Guest OS virtual machine on your Nested ESXi host (Virtual ESXi host).

The virtual machine requires hardware features that are unsupported or disabled on the target host:”"”"”"”*

Longmode: required for 64-bit guest OS support. On Intel systems, longmode requires VT-x to be enabled in the BIOS. On nested virtual ESX hosts, longmode support normally requires upgrading your VM to ESX 5.1 compatibility level (VM version 9) and enabling the “Virtualized Hardware Virtualization” flag on the outer VM.”"”

For incompatibilities other than NX/XD or longmode: if possible, use a cluster with Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) enabled; see KB article 1003212.

CPUID details: incompatibility at level 0×80000001 register ‘edx’.
Host bits: 1100:1011:1101:0011:1111:1011:1111:1111
Required: xx1x:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

ESXi 5.0

With ESXi 5.0,virtualized HV is prohibited by default. This feature is used internally within VMware for testing purposes, but it is not recommended for production systems. It is available on hosts that support Intel VT-x or AMD-V, but it is not recommended for systems without second level address translation (EPT or RVI), because of its poor performance without SLAT. You must add the following configuration option to the /etc/vmware/config file on the physical host to run 64-bit Guest OS on your Nested ESXi host.

vhv.allow = TRUE

ESXi 5.1 & ESXI 5.5

With ESXi 5.1 and 5.5, Virtualized HV is fully supported for virtual hardware version 9 or 10 VMs on hosts that support Intel VT-x and EPT or AMD-V and RVI. you no need to add configuration options to run your 64-bit guest operating systems on your Nested ESXi host. You can follow the simple steps mentioned below which will enable you to power on your 64-bit virtual machines on top of your Nested ESXi.

Access your vCenter server using vSphere Web client,Power off your Nested ESXi host(Virtual ESXi host). Right click your Virtual ESXi host (Nested ESXi host) and Edit settings. Ensure that VM compatibility is set as ESXi 5.5 and later. If it is not set, Upgrade your VM compatibility by right click on VM -> All vCenter Actions ->Compatibility -> Upgrade VM CompatibilityNested ESXi -1

Edit your Nested ESXi Virtual Machine using vSphere Web client -> Edit Settings–> Virtual Hardware -> Expand the CPU options. Select the option “ Expose the NX/XD flag to guest and select the checkbox “Expose hardware assisted virtualization to the guest OS” on Hardware virtualization option. This option will only be available in vSphere web client not on vSphere windows client.

Nested ESXi -3

You can set the Guest OS version under -> VM options -> General options -> under Guest OS, Select Other and Select VMware ESXi 5.x under Guest OS version. This is an optional step to track the Guest OS type. Click on Ok and power on your Nested ESXi (Virtual ESXi machine).

Nested ESXi -4

With the above 3 simple steps, you will be able to power on 64-bit guest operating system on top your Nested ESXi host. That’s it. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading !!!, Be Social and share it in social media, if you feel worth sharing it.

How to Generate Crash Dump for VMware Virtual Machine Guest OS Hung Issues

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Server Hung or unresponsive become common issues in system administration. Advanced Hardware and hardware monitoring tools  have the capability to send alerts in-case server become unresponsive due to hardware faults or parts failure. with the latest technology, lots of organization moved entirely into virtualization and highly critical workloads are running in Virtual machines. It is real important to identify and provide the justification and Route Cause analysis for the downtime of critical applications is one of the important tasks of systems administrators. It’s been a real tough to identify the route cause of virtual machine become unresponsive or hung issues. We will be just left with reboot option when we come across this type of issues in virtual machine. To better identify the route of this issue, We can generate the Crash dump using free tool from VMware Fling called Vmss2core.

Vmss2core is a tool to convert VMware checkpoint state files into formats that third party debugger tools understand. It can handle both suspend (.vmss) and snapshot (.vmsn) checkpoint state files .The vmss2core tool can produce core dump files for the Windows debugger (WinDbg), Red Hat crash compatible core files, a physical memory view suitable for the Gnu debugger gdb, Solaris MDB (XXX), and Mac OS X formats.

Below is the procedure to generate the crash dump or core dump of VMware Guests

1. When the Guest OS is Hung or unresponsive, Login to the vCenter Server or ESXi host using vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client

2. Take the Snapshot of the Virtual Machine which is hung or unresponsive state. Which will create .vmsn file in the virtual machine directory

VMware Snapshot-Vmware Arena

 

Vmware Crash Dump_1

Alternative to the snapshot, You can place the virtual Machine in Suspend State  by Right-Click the hung Virtual Machine -> Power -> Suspend. Which will create .vmss file in the virtual machine directory.

Vmware Crash Dump_2

3. Select the .vmsn or .vmss file and download to  your local machine where you are going to  save the Vmss2core utility.

4. Download the Vmss2core  from VMware Fling Site and place the downloaded file (vmss2core_win.exe)  in your local drive (C:\ or D:\). Ensure  your Windows machine is installed with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 runtime. Place both the Vmss2core file and downloaded .vmsn or .vmss file in same location

5. Execute the below commands to generate core dump. The vmss2core tool can produce core dump files for the Windows debugger (WinDbg), Red Hat crash compatible core files, a physical memory view suitable for the Gnu debugger gdb, Solaris MDB (XXX), and Mac OS X formats.

c:\>vmss2core_win.exe -M VC-1-Snapshot3.vmsn

 
Vmware Crash Dump_3

The above command generate the output file called “vmss.core” for Linux and Solaris. For Windows, It generates a file called *.dmp extension. You can share the crash dump files to your operating system vendor to identify the route cause of Hung or Crash.

Below are the list of command line switches available for vmsscore utility.

Options Explanation
(none) Without any options, produces linear views of memory (vmss.core<n>) one per virtual CPU.
-W Creates aWinDbgfile (memory.dmp)of aWindowsvirtualmachinewithcommonlyusedbuildnumbers,
2195 for Win32 and 6000 for Win64.
-W<num> Creates a WinDbg file (memory.dmp) with <num> as the build number,for example: -W2600
-WDDB<num> Creates aWinDbg file (memory.dmp) with <num> as thedebugger data block address in hexadecimal,for
example: -W12ac34de
-WSCAN Creates aWinDbg file (memory.dmp) and scan all of memory forthe debugger data block, instead ofjust
the lower 256 MB
-M Creates a core file (vmss.core) with a physical memory view suitable forthe Gnu debugger gdb
-l <str> Specifies the starting andending offsets ofLinux kerneldata structures for use by the -N and-P options,
with <str> expressed as 0xHEXNUM,0xHEXNUM. Ignored when used with other options.
-N Red Hat crash core file (vmss.core) for an arbitrary Linux version as defined by the -l option.
-N4 Red Hat crash core file (vmss.core) for Linux kernel version 2.4.
-N6 Red Hat crash core file (vmss.core) for Linux kernel version 2.6.
-P Prints a list of processes running in the Linux virtual machine at checkpoint time
-P<pid> Creates a core file (core.<pid>) forthe Linux process number <pid>.
Itis likely thatprograms compiledwithsymboltables (notremoved)willyieldbetterdebug information
-X<nn-v> Mac OS core dump with <nn-v> representing architecture and Darwin kernel version
-q Quiet operation.

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How to Check ESXi Disk Failures from Command Line

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You would have come across a lot of instances of hard disk failures of your physical servers. It is necessary to identify the exact disk which is failed on the server. It can be easliy checked using hardware managenet tools like HP system Management, HP ILO or even in Hardware status tab of ESXi host from vSphere Client. This post talks about the checking the status of disk failures for esxi host command line utilities. In this post, i am going to discuss about the HP hardware’s and how to check the disk failures from command line in Hp hardware’s. This post will guide you step by step procedure to verify the disk status in ESXi host using HPSSACLI utility which is part of HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5.x.

HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5.x will be available as part of HP customized ESXi installer image but if it is not a HP customized ESXi image then you may need to download and install HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5.x.This ZIP file contains 3 different utilities HPONCFG , HPBOOTCFG and HPSSACLI utilities for remote online configuration of servers.

  • HPONCFG — Command line utility used for obtaining and setting ProLiant iLO configurations.
  •  HPBOOTCFG — Command line utility used for configuring ProLiant server boot order.
  •  HPSSACLI – Command line utility used for configuration and diagnostics of ProLiant server SmartArrays.

You can download and install HP ESXi utilities offline bundle for ESXi 5.X using below command

esxcli software vib install -f -v /tmp/hp-esxi5.5uX-bundle-1.7-13.zip

You can even directly donwload HPSSACLI utility  and Upload the VIB file into your ESXi host and execute the below command to install the HPACUCLI utility.

esxcli software vib install -f -v /tmp/hpssacli-1.60.17.0-5.5.0.vib

Once it is installed. Browse towards the directory /opt/hp/hpssacli/bin and verify the installation.

Check the Disk Failure Status:

Type the below command to check the status of Disks in your ESXi host. It displays the status of the Disk in All Arrays under the Controller.

/opt/hp/hpssacli/bin/hpssacli controller slot=0 physicaldrive all show

Disk Failures - ESXi host

Disk Failures - ESXi host_1Thats it. We identified the disk failure, You may need to generate the HP ADU (Array Diagnostics Utility) report to raise the support case with hardware vendor. Please refer my blog post “How to Generate HP ADU Disk Report in ESXi host”  to understand the step by step guide to generate ADU report from ESXi host command line.  I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading!!!. Be Social and Share it in Social media, if you feel worth sharing it.


Packt Publications – Buy all E-books & Videos just 10$ only for 10 Days

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This month Packt Publications marks 10 years To deliver effective learning and information services to IT professionals and also to celebrate this huge milestone, Packt Publications is offering all of the eBooks and Videos at just $10 each for 10 days – this promotion covers every title and you can stock up on as many copies as you like until July 5th.

If you’ve already tried a Packt title in the past, you’ll know this is a great opportunity to explore what’s new and maintain your personal and professional development. If you’re new to Packt, then now is the time to try our extensive range – we’re confident that in our 2000+ titles you’ll find the knowledge you really need , whether that’s specific learning on an emerging technology or the key skills to keep you ahead of the competition in more established tech. To get you started, we’ve put together 20 of our latest and greatest titles for you to pick up right here. But don’t forget, you can get ANY eBook or Video for $10 in this offer – browse all our categories at the bottom of this page. Start browsing the largest collection of ebooks and buy your favorite e-books with offer price.

Packt Pub-Offer

Packt publications has very good collection of books in various categories and below are the few of my favorite Virtualization related e-books:
VMware ESXi Cookbook (Mohammed Raffic & Aravind Sivaraman)

VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials (Lauren Malhoit)

Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager (Abhilash GB)

vSphere High Performance Cookbook (Prasenjit Sarkar)

Troubleshooting vSphere Storage (Mike Preston)

vSphere Virtual Machine Management (Rebecca Fitzhugh)

Even books related to microsoft virtualization

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook (Leandro Carvalho)

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

Make use of this wonderful offer and buy plenty of e-books of your choice till July 5th 2014. I hope this post will save lot of your money and Thanks for Reading!!. Be Social and Share it in social media, if you feel worth sharing it.

Infinio Accelerator- Improve NAS performance with Downloadable Storage Performance

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It is real challenge of all VMware and storage administrators to troubleshoot the performance of your virtual environment. Most of the performance issues comes down to storage. Let’s consider you have a enough NAS capacity on your environment but you may be left to buy more hardware to solve your storage performance issue. How you feel that you got a super saver in cost to improve your NAS storage performance without buying additional hardware. Infinio accelerator will save you in this situation without need of additional hardware , no downtime& reboots , Free for 30 days. Which is also referred as Downloadable Storage performance

Infinio offers Infinio Accelerator  is a software-only solution that improves the performance of your NAS storage already exists on your vSphere infrastructure. Infinio Accelerator is a virtual appliance which uses Server-side caching to minimize the I/o traffic load on the shared storage without the need of addition hardware like SSD. Infinio Accelerator is a software-only NAS offload engine that works within your VMware vSphere environment to dramatically increase the IOPS capacity of your existing NAS devices. Below the snapshot of Infinio Dashboard looks like .

Infinio Accelerator-dashboard Image: Thanks to Infinio.com

 

How It works :

1. When you select a NAS(NFS) datastore, Infinio Accelerator automatically finds all the ESXi hosts attached to that datastore and deploys single Accelerator virtual appliance to each host and one Accelerator Management console per vCenter server to monitor the status of the accelerated environment.

2. Accelerator virtual appliance sits on the ESXi host server and interacts directly with your NAS Storage layer. Accelerator virtual appliance uses 2 vCPU and 8 GB of Memory to create a local storage cache without the need of any special hardware like SSDs.

3.Accelerator offloads your NAS device by satisfying read requests from local cache or from accelerator cache on neighboring ESXi host.

you can watch excellent video from Infinio which explains How Infinio Accelerator works 

Infinio AccelertaorImage: Thanks to Infinio.com

 

Product Requirements:

Installer Support:

The Infinio Accelerator installer can run from the following operating systems:

  • Windows 7 32- and 64-bit
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Server 2008 R2

Infinio Accelerator version 1.3 is fully supported with vSphere 5.5 and below versions of vCenter Server are supported

  • vCenter Server 4.1
  • vCenter Server 5
  • vCenter Server 5.1
  • vCenter Server 5.5

Hypervisors Supported:

  • ESXi 4.1
  • ESXi 5.0
  • ESXi 5.1
  • ESXi 5.5

Network Storage:

  • Infinio Accelerator is compatible with all datastores that are mounted via NFS v3 over TCP

Compute Resource Requirements:

Infinio Accelerator has the following hardware and storage requirements:

Management VM:
Infinio Accelerator requires one Management VM per vCenter.

  • 30 GB of storage on any datastore
  • 2 vCPUs
  • 4 GB of memory

Accelerator VMs:
Infinio Accelerator deploys one Accelerator VM per accelerated ESXi host.

  • 12 GB of local storage
  • 1 vCPU reserved
  • 8 GB of RAM reserved

I hope you must be impressed with the Infinio Accelerator . Ok. Go ahead and download 30 days free trial of Infinio Accelerator to boost your NAS performance with your VMware vSphere workloads. We will take a look at detailed step by ste installation and configuration of Infinio Accelerator in my upcoming posts. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading!!!

Nutanix Partners with Dell to acquire SDS Market

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The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is a converged infrastructure solution that consolidates the compute (server) tier and the storage tier into a single, integrated appliance. Nutanix uses the same design principles and technologies that power IT innovators such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. It tailors these for mainstream enterprises and government agencies.The modular building-block design allows your organization to start with small deployments and grow incrementally into very large cluster installations. With one appliance, you can move from a small operation to handling large-scale server virtualization deployments, virtual desktop initiatives, test and development applications, big data (e.g. Splunk, Hadoop) projects, and more. you can Request for Nutanix Demo to test this product.

Nutanix

The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform integrates high-performance server resources with enterprise-class storage in a cost-effective 2U appliance. It eliminates the need for network-based storage architecture, such as a storage area network (SAN) or network-attached storage (NAS). The scalability and performance that the world’s largest, most efficient datacenters enjoy are now available to all enterprises and government agencies.

The Nutanix solution is radically simple compared to traditional datacenter infrastructures:

  • Rapid time to value: deployment in under 30 minutes
  • No disruption to ongoing operations
  • Easily scales
  • Powerful off-the-shelf, non-proprietary hardware
  • Reduces the cost and complexity of storage
  • Works with legacy components, protecting investments you’ve already made
  • Delivers advanced, enterprise-class storage capabilities

Nutanix Global Agreement with Dell:

SAN JOSE, CALIF. – June 24, 2014 – Nutanix, the leading provider of next-generation datacenter infrastructure solutions,  announced that they had signed an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Dell to offer a new family of converged infrastructure appliances based on Nutanix web-scale technology. The combination of Nutanix’s groundbreaking software running on Dell’s industry-leading servers delivers a flexible, scale-out platform that brings IT simplicity to modern datacenters. The Nutanix and Dell collaboration is designed from the ground up to deliver innovative web-scale technology to enterprises of any size. The agreement also includes joint sales, marketing, support and service investments, as well as alignment of product roadmaps.

The new Dell XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances will be built with Nutanix software running on Dell PowerEdge servers, and will be available in multiple variants to meet a wide range of price and performance options. The appliances will deliver high-performance converged infrastructure ideal for powering a broad spectrum of popular enterprise use cases, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), virtualized business applications, multi-hypervisor environments and more. Nutanix’s web-scale software runs on all popular virtualization hypervisors, including VMware vSphere™, Microsoft Hyper-V™ and open source KVM, and is uniquely able to span multiple hypervisors in the same environment. The Dell XC Series appliances are scheduled for availability in the fourth quarter of this year and will be sold by Dell sales teams and channel partners worldwide.

Nutanix is a recognized leader in the converged infrastructure market with a software-driven offering that fits with Dell’s efforts to redefine datacenter economics and simplify IT for our customers,” said Alan Atkinson, vice president and general manager, Dell Storage. “By combining market-leading infrastructure and software technologies from both companies with Dell’s world-class go-to-market capabilities, we believe our new solutions will be positioned to be a significant player in the growing, multi-billion dollar converged infrastructure market.”
You can find more about this deal in Nutanix Blog. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading!!. Be Social and Share it in Social media, if you feel worth share it.

 

Infinio VIP Prize Package – Win a Free Pass to VMworld 2014 (San Francisco)

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Infinio  is software company which offers a product called Infinio Accelerator. Infinio Accelerator  is a software-only solution that improves the performance of your NAS storage already exists on your vSphere infrastructure. Infinio Accelerator is a virtual appliance which uses Server-side caching to minimize the I/o traffic load on the shared storage without the need of addition hardware like SSD. Infinio Accelerator is a software-only NAS offload engine that works within your VMware vSphere environment to dramatically increase the IOPS capacity of your existing NAS devices.

Along with this wonderful product, Infinio is contributing a wonderful gift to the virtualization community which is none other than free VMworld 2014 passes. Only thing you need to do is to register your details in the Infinio  VMworld 2014 pass Giveaway page  Below are the some of the details about Infinio prize giveaway:

 

Infinio-Free VMworld 2014 Pass

Infinio, the price/performance leader in server-side caching for VMware, is giving away a vIP prize package to one lucky winner.

Register now and you’ll be entered to win:

  • One full-conference pass to VMworld 2014 in San Francisco
  • (the conference pass includes access to the VMworld party and Hall Crawl events)
  • Access to the VMunderground party
  • Cool Infinio swag
  • Other great stuff!

Register Now with your details & answer 2 questions  and  win a free pass to VMworld 2014 (San Francisco). I would like to thank Infinio for this wonderful contribution towards the virtualization community. I hope you are all ready for VMWorld 2014. Lets meet you in  San Francisco with your Free VMworld Passes. All the Best!!!

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Troubleshoot PSOD on ESXi 5.5 due to HPSA driver 5.5.0.58-1

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we received lot of Purple Screen of death(PSOD) on ESXi host 5.5. When analyzed the logs and googled related to the error, It comes to know that it is a known issue with hpsa (HP ProLiant Smart Array Controller ) driver affecting ESXi 5.5. It is causing memory leak associated with device rescans resulting in out of memory conditions and a potential PSOD. HP has released the latest version of HPSA. HP has released the latest version of HPSA driver (5.5.0.60-1) for vSphere 5.5.

ESXi5.5 - Purple Screen of Death (PSOD)

Below issues were addressed as part of this latest HPSA driver version

  • Fixed a memory leak associated with device rescans resulting in out of memory conditions and a potential PSOD.
  • Fixed a null pointer dereference in error handling code that can cause a PSOD in rare cases when device inquiries fail.
  • Restore LUN numbering policy to start with 1 instead of 0, avoiding potential issues with Raw Device Maps.
  • Enable 64bit DMA mapping instead of default 32bit mapping.
  • Improve null pointer checks in device rescanning code, avoiding a potential PSOD.
  • Restore maximum outstanding command count, removing artificial limitation that could impact performance.
  • Restore support for legacy HP Smart Array P700m controller.

To identify the current version of HPSA driver installed with your ESXi 5.5 host, execute the below command:

~ # vmkload_mod -s hpsa | grep Version
Version: Version 5.5.0.58-1OEM, Build: 1331820, Interface: 9.2 Built on: Dec16 2013

Driver Version: HP HPSA Driver (v 5.5.0.58-1OEM)” meant the affected software driver was used.

How to Install the latest HPSA driver for ESXi 5.5:

Download the HPSA driver vib file (scsi-hpsa-5.5.0.60-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib) for vSphere 5.5 and upload it in your ESXi host datastore

1.Place your ESXi host into Maintenance Host

2.Install the hpsa driver VIB using the below following command:

esxcli software vib install -v /tmp/scsi-hpsa-5.5.0.60-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib

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3.Reboot the ESXi host for the changes to take effect

4.Verify the HPSA driver version after the installation using the below command:

~ # vmkload_mod -s hpsa | grep Version
Version: Version 5.5.0.60-1OEM, Build: 1331820, Interface: 9.2 Built on: May 15 2014

5.Exit your ESXi host from the Maintenance mode

Thats it!!. No more PSOD on your ESXi host. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading!!! Be Social and share it in social media, if you feel worth sharing it.

Fix: The Virtual Machine is installing VMware Tools and cannot initiate a migration operation

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This post is going to help you to troubleshoot the hung VMware tools installation on your VMware virtual machine. There are many instances the hung VMware tools installation will create problem in performing some critical activties. Let say, you are patching your ESXi host cluster for Heartbleed and you might have a deadline to complete the patching but when you try to place your ESXi host in maintenance mode to patch the ESXi host but your ESXi is not going inot maintenace mode for patching because of one of the virtual machine was struck with VMwware tools installation and you are also unbale to unmount via vSphere client and vSPhere web client. This hung VMware tools installation will not allow you to edit the VM or migrate the virtual machine using vMotion to other host. You might be end with powering off the Virtual machine to stop the hung VMware tools installation. You might have received the below error message(The Virtual Machine is installing VMware Tools and cannot initiate a migration operation),when you try to vMotion your virtual machine with hung VMware tools installation.

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This post is going to explain you with the alternate way to stop the Hung VMware tools installation and cancel the installation of VMware tools from ESXi command line.

Login to your ESXi host using putty session. Before proceed with the cancellation of VMware tools from ESXi command line. You need to identify the the VM ID of the virtual machine, which you want to cancel the VMware tools installation and unmount the VMware tools installer.Execute the below command to identify the VM id of the virtual machine:

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms

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Once you have identified the VM Id of your virtual machine from the output of the above command. Execute the below command to cancel the VMware tools installation on the virtual machine

vim-cmd vmsvc/tools.cancelinstall <vm.id>

Example:
vim-cmd vmsvc/tools.cancelinstall 2

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After command executed, you can notice the vCenter tasks ” unmount tools installer” will get complete and your VM will be unmounted with the VMware tools installer.

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Thats’s it. You are done and you will able to vMotion or edit your virtual machine. I hope this is informative for you.Thanks for reading. Be Social and share it in social media, if you feel worth sharing it.

Unitrends: Free Online Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planning Tool

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This post I am going to write about the excellent Free tool  (Unitrends BC/DR Tool) provided by UnitrendsUnitrends is one of the leading software provider has been around in industry for over two decades. Unitrends targets mainly the midmarket with a series of integrated Recovery-Series backup appliances, which are also sold as software-only virtual appliance solutions called Unitrends Enterprise Backup.

Unitrends‘ all-in-one appliances can support a wide range of operating environments and applications with comprehensive functions, and can scale up to 500 physical servers and 5,000 VMs (VMware and Hyper-V) per appliance. Unitrends Virtual Backup targets IT generalists in smaller environments with easier agentless management and a centralized Web interface across VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer.

As a contribution to the community, Unitrends offers free BC/DR link (Unitrends BCDR link) which is online storage of a Unitrends-created Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan in the Unitrends Cloud. Registered BCDR Link users can the BC\DR template and modify it according to their company’s DR plan. You will be able to store the updated BCDR template in Unitrends Cloud. You will be able to access or download the BCDR plan while carriying out the recovery actions. Even BCDR plan can be viewed using your smart devices during diaster. You can even upload other DR related supporting documents in the unitrends cloud.Unitrends has designed its Unitrends Cloud to be secure, private, and highly available during a disaster. You can proivde access to your organization members or Administrators for BCDR template.

Sign-up for the Unitrends Free BCDR link NOW:

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BC/DR Link provides everything you need to:

  • Build and update your own BC/DR plan online with best practice templates and guidelines.

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  • Proivde Access and Connect the right people, right away in the event of a disaster or outage.

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  • You can add Supporting Document and Files into Unitrends BC\DR Cloud.

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I hope this is informative for you. Register for Free Unitrends BC/DR link and start updating your organization Disaster Recovery details and share with your team and access from Unitrends cloud during recovery. Thanks for Reading!!!. Be social and share it in social media, if you feel worth sharing it.


How to Change VMware vCenter Update Manager Database Password?

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In this post, I am going to explain you with the step by step procedure to change the Update Manager Database password using Update Manager utility. Let’s identify the situation where you really need to change the Update Manager database password. Let’s say you are in the process of upgrading your vSphere, You have upgraded your vCenter Server and next step is to upgrade the Update Manager. When you are upgrading the Update Manager, you need to provide the Update Manager database password in the upgrade wizard. Let’s assume, you don’t remember the Update Manager database user password. Then, you may be endup with quitting your Update Manager upgrade process. As an alternate way, You can ask your Database administrator to reset the password of the Update Manager database. Ohh, It is done and you have received the password from Database administrator. If you directly enter that password in Update Manager upgrade wizard , it will not detect the new password. Before you proceed with the Upgrade, You need to update the Database password using Update Manager utility.

Procedure to Change the Update Manager Database password

1.Browse towards the Update Manager installation directory.

<InstalltionDirectory:>\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\

2. Double click on VMwareUpdateManagerUtility.exe

3. Login to the utility using the account with administrator privileges on vCenter Server

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4. Click on Database Settings and type the Database username and modified database password in the field.

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5. Click on Apply and exit from the Update Manager utility

6. Restart the VMware vCenter Update Manager service. You must restart the Update Manager Service for the changes to take effect.

Thats it. Modified Update Manager Database password will be updated after the srevice restart and you can proceed with your Upgrade process now. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading!. Be Social and share it in social media, if you feel worth sharing it.

VeeamON 2014 – World’s first event to focus on Availability for the Modern Data Center

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VeeamON 2014 , a great event from #1 Virtualization Backup provider company Veeam Backup. VeeamON 2014 is the world’s first and only event to focus entirely on Availability for the Modern Data Center. VeeamON 2014, An intensive 3-day conference (OCT 6-8,2014) will include a wide variety of breakout sessions across multiple tracks. As an IT professional, you’ll learn new techniques, get deep-dives into products, connect with like-minded peers and get next-level advice and detailed strategies to achieve non-stop service and continuous availability for your applications and data.

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VeeamON 2014 conference brings together thought leaders, subject matter experts and IT professionals who’ll be immersed in the latest technology for the Always-On Business.

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Sessions

Choose your track and see the covered topics

Technical               BusinessPartner

 

Technical Sessions : (7-8 October Tuesday-Wednesday | General Sessions)

  • Advanced Capacity Planning and Performance Management with Veeam
  • Advanced SQL Server Backup and Recovery with Veeam
  • Advanced Veeam Backup & Replication Architecture: Follow the Flow
  • Automation for All! PowerShell Tricks That Make Everyday Life Easier
  • Backup and Restore Best Practices for Linux VMs
  • Backup Bottleneck Technical Deep Dive
  • Business Challenges Met: SureBackup and Virtual Labs to the Rescue!
  • Better Together: Veeam TAP Partners
  • Deduplication Any Way You Want It!’
  • Deep Dives from Veeam: Product Demos and Live Q&A
  • Deploying Veeam ONE in Large Environments: Tips and Tricks
  • Integrate Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 with Veeam!
  • Introducing the Veeam Management Pack for Hyper-V
  • Networking Deep Dive: Veeam Proxies, WAN Acceleration and Virtual Labs
  • ONEbelievable tricks: Veeam ONE and Automation Services
  • Operation Repo: Building your Backup Repository
  • PowerShell and RestFUL API: Ten Things That You Cannot Do with the GUI
  • The Ultimate Guide to Data Corruption
  • Top 10 Most Common Misconfigurations in Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Top 10 Reports for your Veeam Backup and Virtual Infrastructures
  • Upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication v8: It’s Easier Than You Think
  • Upgrading to Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V the Right Way
  • Veeam Backup & Replication Design: Basic to Advanced Design
  • Veeam Backup & Replication with NetApp Storage: Best practices, Tips and Tricks
  • Veeam Backup Logs: Tips and Tricks of the Trade
  • Veeam Backup Management Suite: Under the Hood
  • Veeam for Cloud Service Providers: Supportability and Design Made Easy
  • Veeam Management Pack: More Than Just System Center Operations Manager
  • VMware Backup Best Practices for 2014 using Veeam
  • vSphere and Hyper-V: Architecting Data Protection Between the Two Hypervisors
  • What Is the Ultimate Backup Storage Architecture?
  • Whiteboard Friday — LIVE from VeeamON!
  • Multi-tenancy: how to use roles, scopes and encryption in enterprise manager
  • Using Veeam B&R in an IaaS-environment with vCAC, Nutanix and NSX
  • What’s New: Veeam Availability Suite v8

Business Sessions:(7-8 October Tuesday-Wednesday | General Sessions)

  • Customer Panel: Challenges and Success Stories
  • Data Protection Best Practices by Company Size and Vertical
  • Enabling Always-On Business with Availability for the Modern Data Center
  • Free Tools for the Engineer’s Arsenal That Solve Business Problems
  • Protect, Serve and Educate in the Public Sector with Veeam
  • Scaling and Sizing Best Practices for Veeam Backup & Replication
  • The Data Center is Down! DR with Veeam, Made Easy

Partner Sessions:(6 October Monday | Partner Sessions)

  • NetApp and Veeam: Configuration and Setup Walkthrough
  • Handling the Competition as the Trusted Advisor
  • Veeam Service Provider 101
  • Backup Storage as a Service: Made Easy with Veeam
  • The Art of Upselling and Cross-selling
  • Near-CDP and DR: You Can Have It All
  • Multi-tenancy: how to use roles, scopes and encryption in enterprise manager
  • Leveraging Veeam ONE for Assessment of Virtual Environments
  • Veeam ProPartner Program Overview
  • Professional Services and Veeam: Generate More Revenue
  • The 3 Vs of Solution Selling: Vendor, Vendor and Veeam
  • Veeam Certification Overview and Benefits
  • What’s New in Veeam Management Pack v7 for System Center
  • Selling Availability for the Modern Data Center

VeeamOn 2014 -Registration

There are 2 types of Registration (Regular Registration & Regular Registration + VMCE Training)

VeeamON-Regular Registration

 

VeeamON-Regular Registrationand VMCE

 

I hope you all must be ready with your Credit/debit cards to register for this wonderful VeeamON 2014 event.  Let’s attend and learn a lot  about the availability of your Datacenter from Experts. Thanks For Reading!!!. Be Social and Share it in Social media, if you feel worth share it.

Unable to power on the Server from ILO – Reset the Blade Slot in c7000 Chassis

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Strength of (OOB) Out of band management options like ILO, DRAC,etc is its remote management of servers.It allows us to manage the  server hosted in remote datacenter from your laptop.  I was unable to perform the power operations from the ILO (Integrated Lights out) for one my ESXi blade server on c7000 chassis.This issue will not appear very often but with more admins working remotely these days and not being able to touch the hardware. This can be a life saver if no one is at the site or the process is slow. What I needed to do was reset the server in a particular slot and the reset option from the Onboard Administrator console was not getting the job done. This issue apper due to two different reasons. First was due to a firmware issue that was making the blade power off a few seconds after turning it on and the second reason was due to an issue with the blades iLO card.
Below command will completely power off the blade slot and back on. This is the same as removing the blade from chassis and reseating it. Before you proceed with the blade reset, get the details of the server bay in the chassis using the below method

Login to your Onboard Administrator using SSH and execute the below command

Mohammed-OA1> show server list

Bay iLO Name                 iLO  IP Address   Status Power   UID   Partner
—   ————–             ————–     ————— ——– ——- -
1     Arena-ESXi-1-ilo             192.168.0.20           OK         On         On
2     Arena-ESXi-2-ilo             192.168.0.30           OK        Off         Off
3     Arena-ESXi-3-ilo             192.168.0.40           OK        On         Off
4     Arena-ESXi-4-ilo            192.168.0.50           OK        On         Off
5     [Absent]
6     [Absent]
7     [Absent]
8     Arena-ESXi-5-ilo             192.168.0.60              OK         On        Off
9    [Subsumed]
10  [Subsumed]
11  [Subsumed]
12  [Subsumed]
13  [Absent]
14  [Absent]
15  [Absent]
16  [Absent]
Totals: 5 Server blades installed , 4 powered on

Note down the server bay which you want to reset. I have problem the server “Arena-ESXi-2″which is bay 2. Execute the below command to reset the blade on bay 2.

reset Server 2

reset Server <Bay#>

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That’s it. After the blade server reset. I was able to power on my server remotely using HP ILO (Integrated Lights Out). I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading !!. Share it in social media, If you feel worth sharing it.

VMTurbo Free Datacenter Stencils for Microsoft Visio and OmniGraffle

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VMTurbo’s Software-Driven Control platform enables organizations to manage cloud and enterprise virtualization environments to maximize infrastructure investments while assuring application performance. VMTurbo’s patent-pending Economic Scheduling Engine dynamically adjusts configuration, resource allocation and workload placement to meet service levels and business goals, and is the only technology capable of closing the loop in IT operation by automating the decision-making process to maintain an environment in its desired state. Apart from this, VMTurbo is also famous for its contribution towards the virtualization community providing free tools and resources to the community. As part of their initiative, VMTurbo released free Datacenter Stencils for Microsoft Visio and omniGraffle.

VMTurbo’s Free Datacenter Stencils include

  • Host
  • Cluster
  • Virtual & Physical SAN
  • Thin & Thick Provisioned Datastores
  • Public, Private, Hybrid, & Virtual Datacenter Clouds

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VMTurbo’s Free Datacenter Stencils are very useful for the Systems administrators and IT Architects. Which help them to create a quality datacenter design diagram  with the help of this free stencils. Thanks VMTurbo for the valuable contribution to the Virtualization community.

Download VMTurbo Free Datacenter Stencils for Microsoft Visio and OmniGraffle

One of my favorite free tool from VMTurbo is VMTurbo’s Virtual Health Monitor which provides full-featured monitoring and reporting in an unlimited fashion across vSphere, Hyper-V, XenServer and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. In addition, the solution collects metrics and, on a weekly basis, provides insight to risk and efficiency issues identified across the environment. VMTurbo’s free monitoring and reporting tool is a stepping stone to its full-featured control system for cloud and virtualized data centers, VMTurbo Operations Manager. With Operations Manager, organizations significantly reduce the time spent reviewing and interpreting dashboard data, troubleshooting, and trial-and-error remediation of performance problems since it automatically maintains the environment in a perpetually healthy state. The solution automates decisions for resource allocation and workload placement in software to ensure applications get the resources required while maximizing utilization of IT assets.

Download the VMTurbo’s Virtual Health Monitor in the below link.

vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2 – Edit Hardware Version 10 VMs using vSphere Client

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I am sure every VMware Administrator will be happy with the Release of vSphere client 5.5 Update 2 (Build Number:1993072)because it allow us to edit the Virtual machines settings with the hardware version 10 using vSphere Windows Client (C# version). It was not possible with the previous release of vSphere Client. You will only be allowed to edit the Virtual Machine with hardware version 10 (vmx-10) using vSphere Web client. As i experienced, even now most of admins are very comfortable working with vSphere Windows client as compared to the web client. Even during many instances when the web client was down or crashed, we were unbale to work with the virtual machines with vmx-10. We may end up performing the VM settings edit using powercli commands or even sometimes we did downgrading the Virtual machine hardware version from .vmx file to work with the vmx-10 virtual machines.

With the release of vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2, you will be allowed to edit the virtual machines with hardware version 10 (vmx-10). Even you don’t need to upgrade your vCenter or ESXi host to vSphere 5.5 update 2. You simply need to install the vSphere Client 5.5 update 2 to edit the virtual machine (vmx-10)settings.

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2 

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Install  vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2 and Connect to your vCenter server using vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2. That’s it you will be able to edit your Virtual Machine with hardware version 10 (vmx-10) using vSphere windows client.

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Above virtual Machine ” VM-HWVersion10″ with VM Version 10 can be edited using vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2 with Restricted Edit option from vSphere Windows Client.

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Restricted Edit -vSphere Client-3Edit VM settings or add Hardwares for your Virtual machine with VM HW version 10 (vmx-10).That’s it. You Virtual Machine reconfiguration was successful.

Restricted Edit -vSphere Client-4That’s it. We are done. I hope this post will be informative for you. Thanks for reading !!!. Be Social and share it in social media, if you feel worth sharing it.

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