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Hoje cruzei com um artigo no Knowledge Base da VMware que sei que pode ser útil pra muita gente. Ao menos já me perguntaram várias vezes. Que portas preciso abrir no meu firewall para fazer um P2V usando o VMware Converter?

Required VMware vCenter Converter ports


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Folks,

We just created an Orchestrator API community and welcome all VMware vCenter Orchestrator API developers to participate and help us build a robust community. Please join us, participate and share.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/orchestrator

Regards,

Pablo

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Folks,

Just wanted to let everyone know registration is open for VMworld Developer Day. We will be publishing Session and Demo details in a few days. Note event is open to all, and even better you get a FREE vSphere Standard License as part of the package of goodies.. more details to come.

VMware Developer Day:
http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/techexchange

Registration Info:
http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/techexchange/register

Regards,
Pablo

PS. As a random side note in case you plan to see the sites in SF before the event The King Tut exhibit is open and worth the effort to see.

http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/6184/king-tut.jpg

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As organizations make the transition to vSphere, it is important to consider the vStorage component. Storage is a critical element of your vSphere platform and enables you to perform many of the server virtualization features that VMware has to offer. Unfortunately, organizations have been denied of these benefits as the required storage component can be budget restraining. Storage Virtual Appliances (SVAs) have taken center stage to counter this problem. SVAs take the internal disk drives of your vSphere server and give you the required shared storage you need for advanced server virtualization.

StorMagic's SvSAN is a high performance Storage Virtual Appliance that allows VMware users to break new ground. With close to 2000 downloads since February 24^th ^2009, the SvSAN is fast becoming the most trusted leader for SVA technology. And why not? Few SVAs give you the high availability, performance, vCenter integration, and RAID management at a price point that is literally a third of most conventional storage appliances. In fact, the SvSAN can give you a Virtual SAN, High Availability, integration with vCenter, and an advanced Support frame for under $2000.

Attend this no-cost limited space event and find out what even has VMware talking about SVAs in their vSphere framework.

  • Avoid the complexity and cost of an external SAN while benefiting from VMotion and DRS
  • Enjoy higher performance levels than conventional SVAs
  • Implement highly available datastores a fraction of the traditional cost
  • Fully utilize the resources of your vSphere server (i.e. internal or attached disk drives) for shared storage
  • Maintain constant connection to virtual machines & datastores in the event of a server or storage failure
  • ESXi support
  • Perform updates and maintenance to vSphere servers without application downtime
  • Increase the capacity of your virtual environment without spending additional capital
  • Visit Case Studies at StorMagic.com to learn how organizations like yours leveraged SvSAN and changed their VMware environments forever...

Register here now!

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In a previous article, I compared syslog servers and decided to use Splunk.
Splunk is easy to set up as a generic Syslog server, but it can be a
pain in the ass getting the winders machines to send to it. There is a
home brewed java based app on the Splunk repository of user submitted
solutions, but I have heard complaints about its stability and decided
that I was going to set out to find a different way to do it.

Read more…


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Welcome to our VMware Coffee Talk Live Webinars. The goal of our webinars is to communicate latest information about our SDKs and Toolkits to our developers and scripters integrating and automating with the vSphere platform. Our meetings will be held the first Wednesday of the month from 9:00 am – 10:00 am PST. We will also be recording these sessions for folks that cannot attend. Visit our calendar on vmwareapis@gmail.com for latest sessions and be sure to invite a friend.

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About our live webinars We will be using Web Ex for our events this means that some of the folks out there might need to download the Web Ex client. Our recorded sessions and pdfs will be posted here as well. These webinars are a great opportunity for you to meet our Product Management and Engineering teams and ask your questions. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Topic Day Registration Information Presentation, WebinarLinks
What is new with vSphere Web Services SDK Deep Dive with Balaji Parimi\ Part 1 Wed May 6th, 2009 Completed vSphereSDK_NewFeatures-5-6-09.pdf

Webinar recording Link\
What is new with vSphere Web Services SDK Best Practices with Balaji Parimi\ Part 2 Friday May 8th, 2009 Completed vSphereSDK_BestPractices.pdf

Webinar recording Link\
PowerCLI - What is new in PowerCLI by Carter Shanklin Wed June 3rd, 2009 Completed PDF, Slides, Sample Code Link\

Webinar recording link\
Special Event - VMware Studio 2.0 - Matthew Ford\ Wed June 24th, 2009 Completed Studio-CoffeeTalk-final.pdf

Webinar recording link\
VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit - VDDK 1.1 - Sudarsan Piduri\ Wed July 1st, 2009 Completed vddk-coffee-talk.pdf

Webinar recording\
To be announced Wed August 5th, 2009    

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OK… I know the wonks at VMware will frown upon this one, but someone
posted a similar hack for WS 6.5 beta, so here it is for WS 7.0 beta. I
finally got around to installing the beta code this morning and
immediately saw a performance issue. VMware Workstation Beta runs in
debug mode by default. It can seriously slow down your VMs. If you are
playing with vSphere and ESX/ESXi 4.0 inside a VM, it is horribly slow
once you get to the VM inside of the VM. This is actually part of the
testing VMware would like you to perform while using the beta.

For Linux, you will find the files in /usr/lib/vmware/bin. For Winders, they are probably somewhere in %PROGRAMS%. I usually stick to Linux for my host.

Read more…

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Title: New Networking Features in vSphere
Author(s): Xtravirt (Peter Grant)
Target Audience: Technical - Intermediate
Current Revision: 1.0 July 2009
First Published: 1 July 2009
Products: VMware ESX 4.0, vSphere
UID: XD10019

Overview:

This Xtravirt white paper gives an overview of the new networking features included in vSphere. In addition to the new VMware distributed virtual switch, it will discuss the third party Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch. This document assumes some existing knowledge of virtual networking within a VMware environment.

Key Concepts:

* Summary of new networking features in vSphere and ESX 4.0
* Distributed Virtual Switch
* Cisco Nexus 1000V

Download the full article/whitepaper here: http://xtravirt.com/xd10019

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Well, connecting all HD's to one controller was in fact slower than having 2 controllers. It's approx 10% slower.
So I reverted back to 2 controllers:
ICH10 SATA 320GB, VM's
Dell Perc 5/i RAID-5, 2TB, data

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Now that vSphere 4.0 is generally available, I have been getting several questions everyday about the performance enhancements in vSphere 4.0. So here's a list that tries to compile all VMware vSphere performance resources. Hopefully I have captured all that's available as of today - there's more work in progress and I will post an update at a later date to reflect the new additions.

First, I recommend starting with the whitepaper that I co-authored: What’s New in VMware vSphere™ 4: Performance Enhancements.
You can also listen to the webcast I did on this topic here.

Next you can delve into specific areas of your interest either by reading detailed performance white papers or blog posts at the VROOM! blog.

Here's list of what's available today:

Performance White Papers
VROOM! Blog Posts

If you do not have the patience to go through the detailed white papers, you can catch quick summary of the results for all the above performance white papers on the VROOM! blog as well.

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I have been impressed with many features of ESX4 and was again today. We currently, in ESX 3.5 U4, have VM's connect to their iSCSI volume with a software iSCSI initiator within the VM for performance reasons. This way we can give the VM multiple NICs in the SAN network and have it use multiple Gbps links to the volume. When using a VMDK on an iSCSI volume, we are llimited to a single Gbps link. That extra Gbps link or two really makes a difference.

With ESX4 supporting MPIO, we can now justify removing the iSCSI software from the VM and move all the data to a VMDK with a performance improvement, as the host has more connections to the SAN than the VM did.


Problem: In our current environment, when we snapshot the VM, system state is all that is snapped. Reverting only affects the system. If we move to VMDKs, now the snapshot affects data as well. This would be bad to roll back to a snapshot for an Exchange server.


Solution: Put the data VMDK into persistent mode so snapshots do not affect it. Great!


Another problem: Independent disks cannot be migrated with the VM online as snapshots cannot be taken.


Today I tested this on ESX4. It works. I have a VM with two disks, one is independent. Storage vmotion moved both disks.


Again, very impressed.


Charles Killmer

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One of my pet peeves is that each virtual appliance coming out of
VMware is that each different virtual appliance released by them is
based on a different OS. Some of these do not even have documented
methods for updating the OS. We all know that no matter what OS is
running on a system, there will be updates for stability and security.
Almost every time I begin an engagement with a customer and it involves
using a virtual appliance, their security wonks get all pissy with me
and I need to show that I have the latest security patches installed
before I even connect the appliance to their network.

This all started with the HealthCheck Appliance, which is a tool
available to partners. Its running Ubuntu 7.10 Server JEOS. Great! It
is an unsupported, deprecated OS. If you know anything about Ubuntu,
you know that the “Long Term Support” (LTS) versions are released every
other year. So, the latest LTS version is 8.04 and the previous is
6.06. No big deal, right?


Read more…
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Since my initial setup with Server 2, I haven't rebooted the Host machine since about June 9th. The Core i7 seems to be humming right along. Ubuntu 9.04 Server 64 - no issues there either.

The GRUB loader that was installed with 9.04 detected the pre-installed Windows Vista, and asked if I wanted to be able to load it. So now if I want, I can load Vista if I ever need. Though as I pointed out, I've never rebooted. I haven't seen any need to boot into Vista yet.


3 GB Ethernet ports point to different networks on LAN for different purposes.


I'm a voip guy, so I'm using this gear to setup a Cisco UCM 7.0 / Unity Conn. 7.0 / AsteriskNow Server.


I'm going to start a mediaWiki on this thing soon too, to capture all my discoveries and acquired knowledge. Before I forget them and become dumb again.


As for the consoling to my machines, I do have to RDP to my XP Pro running on VMWare fusion on my Mac, because the Cntrl + Alt does not work properly when directly using the VMWare fusion console. The system shifts the input context from my XPonFusion out to my Mac instead of from the Server 2 Console window to XPonFusion. How annoying!


I'm using a ZT Systems hardware from Costco. Cheapest fully built i7 machine. I know, I could build my own for cheaper, but I decided long ago, I'm not going to be Tech Support for my self. Anyway they have a 90-day warranty on the whole system. If I don't like it, or it does not work, I take it back to the local store for full refund. Oh, and they dropped the price another $100 this week.


I added 2-320 SATA drives so my guest OSes with more intensive read/write activities can be separated from each other.

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Um estudo detalhado sobre a performance do SQL Server em máquinas virtuais VMware, usando o ESX 4:

http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2009/06/sql-sever-performance-on-vsphere.html

Acaba de sair do forno.

Este artigo é mais um do time de performance da VMware, que costuma publicar estudos como esse em seu blog chamado VROOM.

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Se você prefere configurar suas redes, switches virtuais e portgroups pela linha de comando, então essa é pra você:

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/06/23/new-user-networking-config-guide/

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