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New Security advisory regarding VUM

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VMware have been touting all over twitter today about an issue but not actually informing us what it was, there have been rather cryptic warning about about a Issue with ESX U2 and VDI,  now these warning have been going out since early morning UK time and it is now 8pm UK time and finally:

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It is that time again, here is the latest security advisory from VMware. it also seems to add more credence to Wil’s post on the future of VMware Server 2.0 as once again the status is affected,but “not being fixed at this time”

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Train Signal, who produced the popular ‘VMware vSphere’ and ‘Hyper-V’ training videos have just released a new addition to the VMware vSphere suite of training products called ‘VMware vSphere Pro Series Vol. 1’. read more »

Well I finally plucked up the courage to sit the VCP-410 exam, well to be fair it was the impending deadline that really made me do it, and the fact that “She who must be obeyed” would have beat me senseless if I had to take the “Whats new” course through my laziness.  I am pleased to say that I passed

The exam was a significant improvement on the VCP 310 exam,  it was a little more challenging and the profile was more to do with real environment questions rather than the how many vCPU’s can you have if it is a Thursday afternoon just before tea time type questions.

So what is my advise for the exam,  well the number one is use the blueprint as a guide for your revision,  also also visit longy’s resource for some very good guidance and test questions.  and play with the environment.  There are certain question you can only answer if you have seen the products.

Good luck to those that are yet to commence on the journey,  I am just about to start the next trip, my ascent up mount VCDX.  Bon voyage

Well you have been playing with your console and finally got fedup of typing su - root to get to those esxcfg commands,  well you can automate it to do so you need to configure sudo

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“STOP PRESS” – I was just about to post this and this little nugget appears on VMwareKB

Well it has finally happened after what has seemed an age since the release of vSphere in May.  View 4 has finally arrived,  but wait!  have you noticed one of the pre-reqs,  View required vSphere 4 U1 so now we have to download both View 4 and Update 1 of ESX and vCenter.  this is a significant number of Bits and Bytes.   thank <insert your deity of choice> we are no longer in the days of 28K modems LOL.

So what is all the fuss about first I will comment on vSphere Update 1

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Well, as stated on www.rtfm.co.uk, we Notherners are not to be outdone by the recent launch of an Irish and Scottish User Group – We have finally risen to the challenge and struck out on our own,  those that remember my attempting to start this over the previous years may well wonder why my name is not on the invite.  Well due to a Change in VMware policy regarding VMUGs,  people who are peceived as making their living from VMware are precluded form running a VMUG. read more »

Now before I start, this is not my nugget, I have just added to the process.  So thanks must go to the scripting god that is William Lam.

WARNING: do not do this without Testing first

It is common knowledge that FT (Fault Tolerance) is a feature that comes with vCenter and you will not be able to disable/enable/turn off FT without vCenter. read more »

Well you learn something new every day, thank you to William Lam for this little nugget of infomation

We all know that linked clones in Lab Manager and VMware View have not been supported on vSphere (yes this is slowly changing), well it appears that is not the case! It seems that Linked Clones are available and supported via the vSphere API, have a read of Williams thoughts here:

http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/vGhettoLinkedClone.html

Further, VMware have written a whitepaper on how this black magic (read newly introduced functionality) hangs together, which can be found at:

Linked VM

So while it was perviously true that Linked Clones were only available via Lab Manager and then View, this goodness in now available via scripting to vSphere.

And finally to complete this linked clone goodness William has also writen a couple of scripts to utilise Linked Clones via Service Console/Busybox console for pre-ESX(i) 4.0 which can be found at:

Linked Clones script for ESX 3.x

Linked Clones script for ESXi