Finally, VMware announced their first cloud computing operating system (vSphere). As what VMware mentioned in their site, “Available in several different editions, VMware vSphere delivers targeted benefits to small business and mid-size and enterprise business customers.” So, what’s new come with vSphere? Since I never had a chance yet to try vSphere, I will list some of it :

• Support up to 8 virtual cpu, 255GB (here)
• Hot Add memory & vCPU for virtual machine (here)
• Hot plug with virtual disk & network devices (here)
• Built-in Network Security with vShiled Zones (here)
• Fault Tolerence
• etc

Note: VMware vSphere will be available for sale on May 21, 2009. VMware Infrastructure 3 will be available until May 21, 2009 with an automatic subscription entitlement to VMware vSphere.

• vSphere
• vSphere Collection
• vSphere Communities
• vSphere License

Well, since 9:00am till now 7:49pm I’m stuck at my customer place due to blade FC module issue….. sigh…

For those who interested to join this event :

Few of my colleagues, will participate without me

April 28, 2009
1:45pm – 6:00pm
Sheraton Subang
Room Subang 2
Jalan SS12/1 • Subang Jaya 47500 • Malaysia

Attend this 4-hour session to learn about vSphere Next Generation of Products and Technologies.

Agenda:

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My future references for troubleshooting VMware HA issue.

Below are the steps taken to resolve “HA agent has an error” issue for my customer ESX hosts recently. The problem can be considered as weird since we don’t have any problem to add ESX node to the cluster except, all hosts with status “connect” all the time but once a while, some of the node will getting “HA agent has an error” and few minutes later it’s running back to normal.

Problem : vCenter complaint ESX hosts with “HA agent has an error”

Solution : Uninstall & reinstall vpxa from problematic ESX host Read more

So, Ubuntu gonna release their latest Ubuntu codename “Jaunty” within this 10 days. Few features added on Jaunty will be some key-point for the user whether to choose Ubuntu ahead of other Linux distro :

• New kernel 2.6.28 (latest stable kernel 2.6.29)
• Support ext4 file system (bug fixed)
• Gnome 2.26
• Boot Performance
• Cloud Computing (server edition)

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athlon_crazy 13/04/2009

Getting familiar with ESX command? Try RCLI tool and manage your ESX hosts remotely via command line. No need to enable ssh as recommended for security reason. If you already familiar with some ESX comman “esxcfg-..”, then this tool is really for you.

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athlon_crazy 12/04/2009 2:35am

Just finished patching my ESX hosts with ESX305-200811401-SG security patch. Sigh! The process took less than an hour & supposedly I could bring up my ESX host and all virtual machines without problem but end up it’s took 5 hours to finished. Read more