Last week I found out that my abstract has been accepted as an official session for VMworld in San Francisco! I original blogged about submitting an abstract here. The title is: STO4856 Designing for Mass Failover with Site Recovery Manager: Lessons Learned from a Customer Deployment Last year I was invited to take part in… Read More »
The release of the PowerCLI SRM cmdlets have enabled the admin to automate reporting and protection tasks without having to use .NET or java. Ben Meadowcroft (former PM for SRM) has a github site where he created a lot of functions using PowerCLI, these are very handy to start your SRM automation journey. One thing… Read More »
I originally was going to put up a script for creating tag categories and tags and assigning them, but of course Alan Renouf had a script on his site! The problem I found is that if an object needs to change a tag (say with a cardinality of single), you can just do a set-tagassignment… Read More »
Last week my linux sysadmins had two linux guests become unresponsive after the guest vMotioned (by DRS). The linux team pointed the finger to the host they vMotioned from/to. I wasn’t so sure, I grabbed the logs and opened a case with VMware. VMware didn’t find anything and the guest logs stopped after the vMotion.… Read More »
Just a quick post. I have a large of PowerCLI functions/cmdlets for SRM that I heavily modified from Ben Meadowcraft. One of the functions/cmdlets that I was working on was a function called Export-VMNetworking. The output of this function was a CSV file tha could be used as the input to the dr-ip-customizer (I’m trying… Read More »
I have been working with VMware on a possible FT bug and got to the point where I needed to try to recreate the bug while they had some enhanced logging going on. My test bed consisted of the following 3xBL460c Gen8 Hosts with 256GB Ram with 8 Flex Nics (3 vmkernels, Management, vMotion, NFS/FT)… Read More »
We had an instance last year where our storage became unstable and HA tried to failover guests. The result was that there were phantom VMs that could only be seen when connecting to individual hosts. These phantom VMs would disappear when you would answer the “did you copy or move” question, but they would prevent the… Read More »
Last month we ran into an issue where VMs were failing vmotion (that was kicked off DRS or otherwise). The issue seems to occur when the VM has multiple vmx-*.vswp files. There should only be one file, but for whatever reason (weird HA stuff) a phantom file is created that is there but is not… Read More »