VMware


Sometimes a virtual machine can stop working and fail to respond. While you may not be able to power off the VM gracefully via VI client to vCenter or ESX there is another way to do this, ensuring it is powered off properly. If you kill off the process the VM is running under you may stop it from working again. You can use the vmware-cmd command in the service console to stop the VM.

 

You may or may not have noticed while using vSphere client connected to vCenter there are keyboard shortcuts.

 

These can be very handy and are worth remembering ones that are useful to you. I will list all that I can find in vCenter here, as far as I know they are not listed anywhere by VMware.

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This is an introduction to VMware View 4 and how its components are installed alongside vSphere to provide virtual desktops.

 

What VMware say View is.... "Deliver rich, personalized virtual desktops as a managed service from a virtualization platform built to deliver the entire desktop, not just applications. VMware View 4 allows you to consolidate virtual desktops on datacenter servers and manage operating systems...." Ok thats enough you get the idea.

 

But in plain english this means the same platform (vSphere) is used to provide users desktops. This allows for fast provisioning of desktops, improved reliability, better management etc you already know the benefits of virtulisation its just extending it to desktops.

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It is possible to run ESX 3.5 inside Workstation 6.5. However it depends on setting up the VM that will run ESX right and the hardware you are running Workstation on.
Ive found it works best on Intel processors (recent ones, pentium 4, core 2 duo and xeon), AMD tends to be impossibly slow to boot up after installing (athlon x2). Its all down to the processor supporting virtualization, and it may need turning on in your BIOS. Look for the AMD-V or INTEL-VT setting and turn it on.
These are advanced options that can be specified in the HA settings.

Most commonly used is the das.isolationaddress options below which is used to detect if an ESX/ESXi server has lost connectivity with the network. Several addresses can be checked, but dont forget to set the das.usedefaultisolationaddress to false!

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