SEND F11 KEY TO NESTED ESXI ON MAC
I only use Mac at home, most of the time it’s great sometimes it’s not. For example when installing or configuring your remote lab. I have a windows server installed on a virtual machine that runs vCenter and the vSphere client. When I’m installing a new nested ESXi server, I connect with a remote desktop session to the Windows machine and use the VMware vSphere client. During the ESXi install process, it requires to press the F11 key to continue with the install process. However, F11 isn’t mapped by the vSphere client automatically and there isn’t a menu option in the vSphere client to send it to the client.
VCPU CONFIGURATION. PERFORMANCE IMPACT BETWEEN VIRTUAL SOCKETS AND VIRTUAL CORES?
A question that I frequently receive is if there is a difference in virtual machine performance if the virtual machine is created with multiple cores instead of selecting multiple sockets? Single core CPU VMware introduced multi core virtual CPU in vSphere 4.1 to avoid socket restrictions used by operating systems. In vSphere a vCPU is presented to the operating system as a single core cpu in a single socket, this limits the number of vCPUs that can be operating system. Typically the OS-vendor only restricts the number of physical CPU and not the number of logical CPU (better know as cores).
ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO SIGN UP FOR YOUR VMWORLD SPEAKER SHIRT!
During our advisory call with CloudPhysics, a great idea was born. Why not provide all the speakers at VMworld a cool speaker shirt? Unfortunately in 2011 VMworld made the decision to stop providing speaker shirts to the people on stage, so most people started wearing older speaker shirt or even RUN DRS shirts ☺. For most speakers this move by VMworld was disappointing as the speaker shirts made them more recognizable but it also served as a cool badge of honor. I think CloudPhysics stepped up big time and gave us back that cool badge of honor. If you are a speaker this year, go register here before tomorrow evening as the deadline is Tuesday August 13th end of day(pst).
HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW VIDEO INTRODUCTION TO PERNIXDATA?
I know PernixData FVP is cool, you know it’s cool, now how can you tell you all your friends and colleagues about it? Going around and telling them one by one doesn’t scale, just show them this video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t5b61xtT4Q I think Jeff sums it up nicely:
NEW BOOK PROJECT: TWEET SIZED VSPHERE DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS – SELECTION PROCESS
Just a quick update - this week we passed the deadline for Call of entries and have closed the form. Well over 400 design considerations were submitted and it’s now up to the judges to go through the design considerations. Thanks all for submitting your entries! Stay tuned for more updates.
DOWNLOAD THE VSPHERE 4.1 AND 5.0 CLUSTERING DEEPDIVE FOR FREE
Do you want a free Kindle copy of the vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Deepdive or the vSphere 5.0 Clustering Deepdive? Today and tommorow, Thursday June the 6th, you can download the Kindle (US Kindle Store) copy of both these books for free! So make sure you pick it up either today or tomorrow, it might be the only time this year it is on promo.
WANT TO HAVE MY FORMER JOB?
My old technical marketing team of VMware is looking for someone to cover resource management. If you have a passion for resource management of virtual infrastructures and like to help VMware’s field personnel, partners and customers understand the technology then this job might be something for you. A large part of my role was bridging between engineering, product management, product marketing and the field / customers. Provide information to the R&D side of VMware how the products are used and what features customers are requesting. You create collateral in every way or form to help the customer and field personnel understand and adopt the features. I always enjoyed working with the different teams at VMware. The cloud resource management and vMotion team are an awesome group to work with. Be prepared to deep dive with these guys Marianas trench style. Having a customer facing background helps you provide the team valuable information to align the features to the customer wishes. In this role you assist product marketing and product management in achieving their tactical and strategic plans. Besides working with the responsible engineering and product marketing teams you collaborate with your technical marketing colleagues. You have the ability to interact with guys such as Ken Werneberg, Cormac Hogan, Mike Foley, William Lam, Alan Renouf or Rawlinson Rivera on a daily basis. If you have thorough understanding of the vMotion features, DRS, Storage DRS, SIOC and DPM and love to help customers adopt these features, then apply now! http://jobs.vmware.com/job/Palo-Alto-Sr_-Technical-Marketing-Manager-Resource-Management-Job-CA-94301/2593496/ Please note Be aware that this is my former role and that I no longer work for VMware. Therefor I cannot answer any further inquiries. Please contact the VMware career team.
NEW STORAGE DRS WHITEPAPER AVAILABLE AT VMWARE.COM
Last Friday my last and latest whitepaper about Storage DRS was published on VMware.com. Go to http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10363 and download the whitepaper: “Understanding vSphere 5.1 Storage DRS”. Download and read this whitepaper if you want to learn more about the five key elements of Storage DRS. Here’s a little snippet from the whitepaper: Step 1. Determine Whether Datastores Are Violating the Space-Utilization Threshold If the space utilization of a datastore exceeds 80 percent, the datastore violates the threshold and the vSphere Storage DRS load-balancing algorithm is invoked. vSphere Storage DRS attempts to avoid an out-of-space situation and therefore runs a load-balancing operation as soon as the datastore exceeds its space-utilization threshold. This operation can be outside of the normal load-balancing interval of every 8 hours. The space-utilization threshold is a soft limit, enabling vSphere Storage DRS to place virtual machines in the datastore cluster even if all datastores exceed the space-utilization threshold. vSphere Storage DRS attempts to generate prerequisite migrations before virtual machine placement. If this fails, the virtual machine is placed on the datastore that provides the best overall cluster balance. This performance applies to space-utilization load-balancing operations as well, even if all datastores violate the space-utilization threshold. vSphere Storage DRS tries to keep space utilization near the threshold across all datastores. Download: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmw-vsphr-5-1-stor-drs-uslet-101-web.pdf
CLOUDPHYSICS WEBINAR: EXPERT TIPS FOR MANAGING DATASTORE SPACE IN A VSPHERE ENVIRONMENT
Tonight I will join Erik Haus and Krishna Raj Raja of CloudPhysics to talk about Datastore space management in a virtual infrastructure. During the webinar Krishna will show you how the new CloudPhysics “Datastore Space” card and “Snapshots Gone Wild” card help you to identify and resolve space problems. Join us! The event will start at 6:00 pm Amsterdam Time on May 9, 2013. (9:00 AM PDT) Go to the CloudPhysics site to register!
EMBARKING ON A NEW ADVENTURE - JOINING PERNIXDATA AS TECH EVANGELIST
Sometimes something comes along that makes you feel you need to get involved with. Something that makes you want to leave the comfortable position you have now and take up the challenge of starting all over again. Help turn that something into something big. Well that something is in my case PernixData and its Flash Virtualization Platform. Joining PernixData means I’m leaving the great company of VMware and an awful lot of great colleague behind. Some of them I consider to be good friends. During my years at VMware I learned a lot and words cannot describe how awesome those years were. Designing the vCloud environment for the European launching partner, consulting a lot of the Fortune 500 firms, participating in VCDX panels around the world and co-authoring three books are some of the highlights during my time at VMware but I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot of other great moments. Being a part of the technical marketing team was amazing! Besides working alongside the best bloggers in the world I had the privilege to work with the engineers on a daily basis. Having a job that allows you to think, talk and write about technology you absolutely love is great and difficult to let go. But opportunities do come along and as I mentioned in the beginning some of these opportunities spark the desire to become a part of that story. When I attended a technical preview of the Flash Virtualization Platform at PernixData I got excited. I think just as excited as when I saw my first vMotion. Meeting the founders and the team made me realize that this company and product was more than just a single product, this platform is a game changer in the world of virtual infrastructure and datacenter design. Which drove me to the decision to accept a position with PernixData as Technology Evangelist. As the Technology Evangelist I’m responsible for helping the virtualization community understand PernixData’s Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP). And as the first international employee I also will be focusing on expanding the European organization. I will be starting at PernixData soon, can’t wait to start