Searching for storage: Tintri
Here is the second installment of my series of posts dealing with storage that I am evaluating at ipHouse for our virtualization products.
I have been a busy boy the past couple of weeks.
It’s 1.0 to you but you’re beta to me: vCloud Director Client for iPad
VMware’s new vCloud Director Client for iPad carries on the version 1.0 tradition of VMware software releases with missing or non-operational features, but it is VMware and they will update this into a stellar application.
Searching for storage: Tegile
Blog post about Tegile’s Zebi storage appliance, a storage vendor I learned about from a friend in the IT field working in education.
I’m very glad I followed up on the suggestion.
Oh sandbox, you need to grow
The buildup of our new sandbox for internal learning has run for a week and already we are running out of resources. Five old Dell PE1430 with 2 4-core processors but they max out at 8 GiB of RAM. That’s 40 GiB total for 7-8 people. This is a little tight. Digging through dead server storage(tm) I have found a […]
Building a sandbox requires planning
I mean it. 6 servers (5 operational as one is crashing itself repeatedly), 2 switches, and bandwidth. This should be easy to do! I mean: what could go wrong?
Monitoring and measurement software, the search
While at VMworld 2011, I spent a lot of time at the expo (where companies were peddling their wares) looking for 2 items. Storage vendors who do things via NFS. Monitoring and measurement companies to help me consolidate the multiple pieces of software we run today. This post is about #2. I looked at a ton of software while at […]
VMworld 2011 – what a busy week
I was in Las Vegas for VMworld 2011 this past week and what a busy week it was! 20,000+ people in attendance! I met many amazing people, saw quite a few new products, I enjoyed it 100%.
vCloud Director 1.5 cannot upload files error
Let’s say you have your vCloud Director cells behind a load balancer. You try to upload your files (.iso and .ovf images for either a vApp or media and receive an error message like: Error: Transferring files On page 98 of the vdc_15_admin_guide.pdf you will find a paragraph pointing out that you need to fill in the API field for uploads […]
Install of vCloud Director 1.5 fails to set up ESXi 4.1U1 hosts
According to the install documentation, VMware vSphere 4 ESX and ESXi 4.1 update 1 are supported. Install or upgrade to vCloud Director 1.5 will fail with the following error when trying to add the provider vDC: Could not retrieve state for sequence: seq_os This is easily fixed by editing the database table [os_id] and inserting the relevant information.