Virtualization Archives

How to change console keymap on Photon OS

Jan

13

2017

If you live outside US, like me, you might want to change default keymap on Photon OS. This is very easily done. Install Linux Keyboard Tools package, kbd, and run localsectl set-keymap <keymap_code>. Below is an example how to set console keymap to Finnish. # tdnf install kbd # localectl set-keymap fi This setting is ...

Tintri enters All-Flash market with VMstore T5000 series

Aug

21

2015

Yesterday we saw a big product launch from Tintri, maker of VM-aware storage array VMstore. Up until yesterday Tintri VMstore arrays have been Hybrid-Flash arrays which contain both SSD and HDD capacity with efficient space saving methods and intelligent tiering algorithms to maximize performance. Yesterday we saw Tintri to enter All-Flash array market with their ...

VDP 6.0 configuration utility not compatible with Google Chrome – Updated

May

2

2015

Google removed SSL support from recent Chrome versions because of major security flaws in SSL protocol. Unfortunately this breaks some web applications which are running on web servers configured to support only SSL and not more secure TLS, VMware Data Protection configuration utility is one of these applications. If you try to access VDP configuration utility at ...

VMFS Datastore UNMAP using vCenter Orchestrator 2

Aug

31

2014

If you are using thin provisioned block volumes for your VMware vSphere VMFS datastores you will certainly benefit from this new vCenter Orchestrator workflow I created. VMware introduced VAAI UNMAP capability in vSphere 5.0, and since vSphere 5.0 update 1 UNMAP has been on-demand operation which requires use of CLI on VMware ESXi host. With ...

VMWorld 2014 US top 10 session recordings now online!

Aug

28

2014

Recordings of top 10 sessions at VMWorld 2014 US are now available online! STO1965.1 – Virtual Volumes Technical Deep Dive NET1674 – Advanced Topics & Future Directions in Network Virtualization with NSX BCO1916.1 – Site Recovery Manager and Stretched Storage: Tech Preview of a New Approach to Active-Active Data Centers INF1522 – vSphere With Operations ...

Schedule VM version upgrades with vCenter Orchestrator 1

Aug

8

2014

Upgrading large number of virtual machines to higher virtual machine version can be painstakingly laborious task if done manually using GUI tools, as a result virtual machine versions are usually left untouched, until it is absolutely necessary to upgrade to new version to unlock new vSphere features. However, if your server gear is recent enough ...

vSphere VM version impact on available CPU instructions

Aug

7

2014

While working on new vCenter Orchestrator workflow for scheduling VM version upgrades I ended up doing some fact checking on low level differences of available VM versions. Using simple cat /proc/cpuinfo method on Linux, I noticed that set of CPU instructions exposed to guest OS is actually dependent on VM version. I tested VM versions 7, ...

RHEL, CentOS and Oracle Linux 7 support on vCloud Director 2

Aug

6

2014

VMware vCloud admins heads up, please note that recently released RHEL, CentOS and Oracle Linux 7 releases are NOT supported on current vCloud Director 5.5 releases. And in this case “no supported” also means not going to work! RHEL 7 introduced radical OS level changes which require changes in vCloud Director guest customization workflows, mostly on ...