POC with 3par

Whoohoo

The storage team here is going to have a proof of concept with 3par storage.
That's going to be very interesting.
They asked me if i wanted to join the "testteam" from esx perspective's. Were in the middle of the migration to vsphere but the test's are going to be mainly on the "old 3.5 environment".
If there is time the testing will also take place at the new environment with the mpio settings in place. Iometer is going to be the "measurement tool". Also software developers created a build environment to test with. This all will take place in Januari. Preparing and writing!

its christmas(olmost) :D

mistake's

After i didn't do my exam because of the misplanning i had another issue when installing the new environment. Yea having a great day :D

After installing the new host's i connected the second nic to the service console. Because of this i lost my connection to the host.

Login to the console(local physical machine).

List the nics that are in use by the service console
esxcfg-vswitch -l to list the nic's
Specify the nic you wan't to remove.

esxcfg-vswitch --unlink=vmnic0 vSwitch0
After this vmnic0 is removed from the vswitch and you can connect again to the host with the vi client.

Maybe there is a quicker solution but this worked for me.

Find the password on the host.

Stealing host password's.
The tool used for password recovery is explained on
http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1269-Cool-Password-Recovery-Tool.html.

Here is it in action.

Vmware User Group meeting Belgium

Today i received the invitation to visit the FREE vmware user group meeting in belgium.
Last time the location was Superb. So this one's im going to visit and evaluate the location ;) and of course the subject's below are also interesting.

Driving Directions and location info : The Bowling Stones : Wemmel - Steenweg op Brussel 397 - 1780 Wemmel (Brussel)

The agenda of this meeting: (subject to change)

13u15: Welcome (Reinoud Reynders - UZLeuven)
13u20: VMWorld Summary (Nicolas van Wijnsberghe - VMware)
14u00 Installation and Configuration ESX Vsphere - best practices (Gabrie - http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/)
14u45: Break offered by Symantec
15u00 : Protection in a virtual environment (Paul Murgatroyd & Kim Apers - Symantec)
15u30: Upgrade your environment (Jan Tiri - VMWare)
16u15: Microsoft Licensing in a VDI environment (Patrick Viaene-Microsoft)
17u00: Vmug Drink offered by Symantec
To attend this FREE meeting you need to be logged in first (if you are not a member yet, please do so. It's free!)
http://www.vmug.be

Once logged in you'll see a question above 'I will attend'. Then you'll thick yes or no.

road

I didn't had the chance to make picture's at the cdg meeting since my battery died.. But overal is was interesting and fun.

Last month's were like a rollercoaster, preparing for my last mcse exam, learning about Best practises/powershell/vranger/esx environment/ iscsi/ in general troubleshooting esx.
Next goal is getting my vcp exam this is planned for 24 november at 9:00.
Im a little afraid for it because everyone's telling me this one's difficult. But with the help of Simon Long and the books i have, it should be go well^^.

In general the people i speak about virtualisation are openminded people i like that.

CDG Technical Update Event

Today's planning going to visit CDG Roermond (Limburg) to hear:

* VMworld update
* RES Software en VMware View
* Citrix reduces traffic jams on the roads to and from our Dynamic Delivery Center

Ill make some photo's and publish them later.

Vmware highlights Day 0

Vmware logo changed ! They removed the boxes from the logo!
And they presented VMware GO product.