January 14, 2008 4:23 AM
Posted by: Akutz
Andrew Kutz,
VI3,
VirtualizationHere is a quick Perl script I wrote to print out your VI server's (VC or ESX) inventory. I know what you're thinking, "Um, aren't there already examples that do this?" Yes and no. See, most examples you find, including VMware's own, will print out all the VMs or the VI hierarchy as defined by the...
January 10, 2008 7:17 PM
Posted by: Akutz
Andrew Kutz,
VI3,
VirtualizationOver the past few weeks many users have begun to e-mail me asking for not just help with the VI SDK, but code examples as well. I am more than happy to help, but I want to be able to help as many people as I can. To that end I have decided to post all of my code examples online for everyone's...
January 9, 2008 5:14 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover,
VI3,
Virtualization,
VMware ESXWhen planning your next VMware ESX server installation that will be managed by VirtualCenter 2.5, make sure you provision for redundant networking for the ESX service console port. VirtualCenter 2.5 gives you a warning if you only have one interface assigned as the role of service console port, but...
January 3, 2008 7:46 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Networking,
Rick Vanover,
VI3,
Virtualization,
VMware ESXIn VMware ESX, you can configure a guest operating system to have its network adapter disconnected at power on. This is critically important for a phase of a physical to virtual (P2V) migration where the system is migrated yet there are some offline tasks to be done. This can also be during a build...
January 2, 2008 9:45 PM
Posted by: Akutz
Andrew Kutz,
VI3Monét (as in “Count de…”) stands for “Monitors Events and Tasks” and monitors an ESX or VirtualCenter server, recording tasks to standard out, a syslog server, or a Windows event log server. For example, the following is an example of the VI Perl version of Monét monitoring my...
