Links for January 30, 2009: VMware KnowledgeBase Article – Verify the health of ESX Server Operating System – There are many ways to look at ESX host performance. This article focuses on quick assessment of the 4 main resources: Disk Space, CPU, Memory, Network.
Links for January 29, 2009: Rapid Cloning Utility – "The Rapid Cloning Utility allows users to quickly create and deploy VMware virtual machines using Flexclone technology in an automated fashion, without having to develop custom scripts." The primary tool, na_vi_clone.exe, allows customers to quickly and efficiently clone datastores, create virtual machine clones in VirtualCenter, power [...]
Links for January 28, 2009: Rebuilding world – Official FreeBSD instructions on how to rebuild a system from source.
FlexVol autogrowth is configured using the vol autosize command; example for filer “toaster” and volume /vol/vol3: toaster> vol autosize vol3 -m 2t -i 20g on To configure growth to happen before snapshot deletion, use the try_first option: toaster> vol options vol3 try_first volume_grow See also ONTAP autodelete settings for a FlexVol.
Example session configuring autodelete settings for /vol/vol3 on filer “toaster”: toaster> snap autodelete vol3 show snapshot autodelete settings for vol3: state : off commitment : try trigger : volume target_free_space : 20% delete_order : oldest_first defer_delete : user_created prefix : (not specified) toaster> snap autodelete vol3 on snap autodelete: snap autodelete enabled toaster> snap autodelete [...]
Links for January 27, 2009: VMware KnowledgeBase Article – Installing ESX Server Licenses – "Software licenses are required for most operations in VirtualCenter and ESX Server 3, such as adding hosts to your VirtualCenter inventory. You can however use the evaluation mode for initial configuration of ESX hosts and Virtual Center. Two modes of licensing [...]
Links for January 26, 2009: Data Mining with R: learning by case studies – "We propose to introduce the reader to the power of R and data mining, by means of several case studies." Uses MySQL. USB On Your Virtual Machine | VMware Tips – Two possibilities for sharing USB devices with VMs described – [...]
Links for January 22, 2009 through January 23, 2009: Another Microsoft Licensing Policy Update: What’s Good? What’s Left? at ChrisWolf.com – Notes on updates to Microsoft's licensing policies with regards to virtualization. P2V a FreeBSD 6.x to ESX – Virtualize.dk – Scripts, tips and hints for your VI3 environment – Notes on FreeBSD P2V to [...]
Links for January 22, 2009: Configuring the OpenSolaris CIFS Server in Domain Mode : As Good A Place As Any – Notes on configuring Solaris' CIFS server under Active Directory. Configuring the OpenSolaris CIFS Server in Workgroup Mode : As Good A Place As Any – Notes on configuring Solaris' built-in CIFS server in workgroup [...]
Links for January 21, 2009: The NFS Version 4 Protocol – "This paper describes the new features of the protocol, focusing on the security enhancements, integrated locking support, changes to fully support Windows file sharing semantics, support for high performance data sharing, and the design points that enhance performance on the Internet. We describe applications [...]