My year is starting out with a bang, and I have been heads down all week planning for the new year with my team. Here are the top 5 blog posts for Week #2!
Have a great weekend…
Scott Drummonds – vCenter Custom Alarms: Instruction, Tips, Tools – Half a year ago the Asia Pacific vSpecialist team made a fantastic acquisition in one David “Two Screws” Lloyd. David previously worked for a wonderful VMware and EMC customer in the UK and moved back to Australia. That is when we jumped on the opportunity to snap him up. In working with him in the labs recently, I have come to realize that David has incredible depth and breadth in the space of virtual infrastructure management.
Hany Michael – Integrating VMware vCloud Director with vShield Edge and vShield App – Until a very recent date, I was not quite sure whether this is possible or not. In fact, whenever I was asked if vCloud Director can work with the fully licensed vShield Edge/App or not, I thought the safest answer would be No! After doing some research internally at VMware, I found a great presentation talking about this specific subject. And after viewing this preso for at least two times, I was still not quite sure how it can be set up or configured for that matter. At least I was sure that it can be achieved!
Eric Sloof – Latest fling from VMware Labs – IOBlazer – VMware Labs presents its latest fling IOBlazer – a multi-platform storage stack micro-benchmark tool. IOBlazer started as a minimalist MS SQL Server emulator which focused solely on IO component. It has now matured into a scalable application with multi-platform support, capable of generating highly customizable workload by configuring parameters like…
Charu Chaubal – ESXi 4.1 Active Directory Integration – Although day-to-day vSphere management operations are usually done on vCenter Server logged in through the vSphere Client, there are instances when users must work with ESXi directly, such as with configuration backup and log file access. Then there are monitoring solutions, which sometimes require direct access to the ESXi host; these would typically be configured to use service accounts. Prior to ESXi 4.1, you could only create local users, which each had separate locally-stored passwords per host. Since this is cumbersome and doesn’t scale, we decided to address this in the vSphere 4.1 release.
Alan Renouf – VMworld Session: PowerCLI is for Administrators! – This post has been a long time coming – but now the PowerCLI book is at last in the final stages of production (you can pre order here) I am finally able to spend a little time updating my blog again, and believe me I have a long list of posts.
