What’s wrong with the Datastore Browser?
Jan 23, 2009 Blogs
I’ve been reading about the release of a public beta of Veeam FastSCP 3. Sander, Arne and the guys over at VMBlog.com all made a blogpost about this release. Duncan jumped in and compares FastSCP to WinSCP. I’d like to pick up on that with the following post:
Enabling CIM on ESXi
Jan 16, 2009 Blogs
My ESXi-machine has been running for a long time, but I never took the effort to get some form of hardware-monitoring working. After the network at the datacenter went dark for a while, I thought that my machine had physically crashed. Luckily, the machine was still up-and-running, but it did scare me. Therefore, I decided to tinker around with some form of monitoring, and settled on Nagios (which I already had set up), and an addon script called ‘check_esx_wbem.py‘.
VMware ESXi colocated server uptime
Jan 16, 2009 Blogs
I just noticed that my colocated server (VMware ESXi 3.5.0, build 120525) has reached an uptime of more than 100 days! Actually, the machine is running non-stop for over 9 months, but due to some critical patches on ESXi, the machine has rebooted a couple of times… How’s that for a stable machine. Beat that, Hyper-V/Xen/KVM!
VMware vExpert
Jan 15, 2009 Blogs
VMware has launched its appreciation award (like Microsoft MVP) today! On the landing page (see here), you can learn more about the award.
The award will be given to members of the VMware-community who’ve been very active in the past year. These activities include:
* Helping others to learn about virtualization and successfully deploy VMware solutions;
* Active in the online or offline community of VMware users (VMware Community/Forum, VMUG, own blog).
