I guess I posted a little too soon about Rove’s Mobile Admin release that has full support for VMware vCenter. VMware has just announced VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) which is due to be released BETA in April, this is a Virtual Appliance that links your mobile device/smart phone to your vCenter Server. More information can be found on the Technology Preview Site.
Posted under ESX 3.5 Tips, ESXi 3.5 Tips, Monitoring, vSphere
This post was written by Rick Scherer on March 20, 2009
Rove has provided me with a demo of their Mobile Admin management tool, unfortunately I have been unable to install and use it due to my busy schedule lately. I did want to provide you with their press release though, and also a couple links to a Webinar explaining the product and a link to download the trial.
Their product does look very promising, the concept is simple, you place their software on an Internet Accessible server, it interacts with the back-end application you wish to manage (vCenter, SCOM, etc.). You then use your Windows Mobile or Blackberry device to connect to this management server to perform basic tasks.
Rich over at VM /ETC did a very nice write up, including some screen-shots of what the VI interface looks like on a Windows Mobile Device.
Posted under Good Reading, Monitoring
This post was written by Rick Scherer on March 20, 2009
For those of you upgrading to vCenter 2.5 U4 and and are planning to use the new Performance Overview Plugin, there are some additional steps required to making this work. Pretty much the biggest thing is that you need the Java Development Kit installed on the vCenter server. All of this is covered in VMware KB 1008296, but for your convenience I’ve included the steps here.
Posted under ESX 3.5 Tips, ESXi 3.5 Tips, Monitoring
This post was written by Rick Scherer on February 27, 2009
Earlier today Virtual IEF posted a blog about not being able to access an ESX host, not by ssh, not by VIC and not even through vCenter. Evidently this is caused by the hardware monitoring agents (HP, Dell, etc) auto-detecting the management server and failing authentication. This causes cimservera to be spawned hundreds if not thousands of times thus causing so much CPU and Network traffic locally that it cannot respond within the thresholds for SSH, or VPX agents.
Posted under ESX 3.5 Tips, ESXi 3.5 Tips, Monitoring
This post was written by Rick Scherer on January 6, 2009
Recently my employer found the need to assess virtual machine utilization, to be used for FY10 budget planning. So, I started my search for the best product to do just that.
As you may have read, I’ve already reviewed Vizioncore’s vFoglight - which is a real nice product and extremely flexible…but, as some may have already seen or heard, it is extremely bloated and put a 2 vCPU/4GB Virtual Machine to its knees. (Also, it does not have a Chargeback feature..which is surprising since the older versions of vCharter did) …So, this is where vKernel’s product line comes in.
Posted under Good Reading, Monitoring
This post was written by Rick Scherer on November 25, 2008
I’ve been using a demo version of vFoglight for about 2 weeks now and I am overwhelmed with how much this product can do. The installation is extremely straight forward, this product is based on Quest Software’s Foglight Application and Service Management software. Basically you have three components, the actual Foglight software and the VMware Collector and Connector. Long story short, this piece of software is most likely all you would ever need for complete monitoring, reporting and alerting of your VMware Infrastructure, the downside is that you would most likely need a team of server administrators and trained professionals to get it all configured and running to meet your needs.
Posted under Good Reading, Monitoring
This post was written by Rick Scherer on October 30, 2008
