VIOPS: Proven Practices for Deploying and Managing VMware : All Content - Community

Importing VMDK file created on ESX2.5 to ESX3i

myemmi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:37:05 GMT

Hi Everyone,

First time in this community. I was just wondering if anyone tried or knows if we can import VMDK files created using ESX2.5 enterprise version into ESX3i (free version)?

Thanks You very much.

Mourad

Converter error

liddig1 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:40:48 GMT

Hi,

I'd also check the status of the vss writers on the server you are tyring to clone. Run 'vssadm list writers' from a command prompt to see if everything is ok..

Regards,
Gary

vSRM VLAN configuration?

vikash_roy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:17:30 GMT

Check my earlier email

How to create a proven practice document

schambers — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:19:55 GMT

Here's the lightweight process

1. Find the community that fits your practice (don't worry if you get it wrong, the community folks will help find the right home)

2. Create a document

3. Then select "Write a new document"

4. Put your content in, make it look like the template below (click on example to enlarge). There is a template at the bottom of this doc that you can copy & paste with to save you writing this out

5. After you've written the document, you can do a number of things:

Attach a document - this can be instead of writing out content in the main doc (but always add the headers above).
ALWAYS add Tags. The minimum is "proven_practice", but check out some of the others to get an idea. Product names, job roles, company names, busines verticals - these are all good tags.
If you are going to Submit for Approval straight away, then leave "Users who may edit:" set as "Anyone" - this is a collaboration site - and click "Submit for Approval"
If you want to keep this as a draft and work with someone on this prior to publishing, then in "Users who may edit" select the other VIOPS user(s) - and click "Save as Draft"
Always leave Comments open.

6. Wait for the approver to get in touch about adding more content

The template for copying & pasting

Paste the following into your document.

Introduction

explain why this proven practice came about, what problem does it solve?

Intended Audience

what kind of organization would this suit? - company size, business vertical, size of virtual infrastructure- which job roles will be interested in this - a VCP? A CCNA? An IT Manager? A Change Manager? Head of Operations?

Outline

briefly list the steps in the practice, in number order

Author

company logo + bio- author(s) name, email, bio

Resources

link to this document as a minimum- other links to white papers, KB articles, case studies, VMTN etc.

Disclaimer

You use this proven practice at your discretion. VMware and the author do not guarantee any results from the use of this proven practice. This proven practice is provided on an as-is basis and is for demonstration purposes only.

Title of proven practice goes here

...and the unambiguous, prescriptive and actionable text goes here

Our Latest VIOPS Expert

stephens — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:24:22 GMT

Please join me in congratulating Desmond Chan as the new expert highlighted on the VIOPS front page.

Desmond was one of the original moderators of VIOPS and has been a strong supporter within the VMware technical community. He has been a leading contributor to VIOPS by authoring five top quality proven practices. Here are two examples of his latest work.

Great work, Desmond, keep it coming!

VDI Justification

schambers — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:18:08 GMT

Brian wrote up his work in a VIOPS proven practice doc:

Virtual Desktop Introduction Business Case

VMworld 2009

schambers — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:49:37 GMT

I'll see you there, Brian

My two sessions were accepted - High Performance Operations and Virtualization Capacity Management.

Should be a h00t!

Partition sizing via Kickstart script

dconvery — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:49:44 GMT

I think this has to do with the geometry of the disks provided. I believe it is a function of the RAID adapter a little bit as well. If you do a DF -h what does that report?

After installation of ESXi update 4 patches, VMs Hang/crash

Naseer — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:23:09 GMT

There is a PR opened for this and one recommendation is to stop the sfcdb service which is known to have a memory leak issue. (The PR are 360229 and 403926.)

To stop sfcbd:

~ # /etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog stop

This will print Stopping sfcbd numerous times before it eventually stops. (Might be worth checking ps | grep sfcb to make sure it is really stopped.)

To stop it restarting again, from the GUI:

Select Configuration -> Advanced Settings -> Misc -> Misc.CimOemProvidersEnabled and set to 0

Registered User Survey Results

rochej — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:20:05 GMT

Hello everyone, a few months back we ran a short survey for our registered users to ask a few questions on how we can improve VIOPS as well as some things that stop or hinder our users from contributing. Below you will find a PowerPoint doc with the formatted Q & A. We wanted to give everyone a chance to glance at these results. Overall we were very impressed with the answers given, and look forward to working on these suggestions in the near future.

Thanks, John