Tag: VMware

VMware ESXi Network Installation 5 using PXELINUX and configuration files

En este documento veremos cómo desplegar o realizar instalaciones de red de VMware ESXi 5 usando PXELINUX y archivos de configuración mediante PXE, utilizaremos un servidor DHCP que será el encargado del direccionamiento, un servidor TFTP para transmitir las imágenes mediante PXE, ficheros de configuración de los hosts (optional) en el arranque de los hosts, con esto conseguiremos de una forma automatizada disponer de tantos hosts ESXi como necesitemos de forma instantánea,

Virtualizing Android on VMware

A veces tenemos la necesidad de testear ciertas apps bajo sistemas operativos diseñados exclusivamente para dispositivos móviles, in this document we will see how we can run Android (the S.O. 'Now’ from Google) under a VMware virtual machine. This document is valid for both virtualizing Android under VMware ESXi and VMware WorkStation,

VMware vCenter HeartBeat

In this document, we'll look at installing and configuring VMware vCenter Heartbeat, this product allows us to obtain high availability of our VMware vCenter server in environments where it is critical, allowing application-level protection at all times, services, SQL Server if on-premises, Update Manager or if we have VMware View protecting it for use with VMware Composer. With this product we will have two vCenter servers, A primary one (active) and a secondary one (passive) where we can manually change roles (switchover) or in the event of a fall (failover) We will have high availability since the information is continuously replicated through a private network, This drop could be at the hardware level, S.O., Network Issues, vCenter application crashes or their dependencies.

Using VMware Compliance Checker

The past 19 April, VMware introduced VMware Compliance Checker, a free VMware tool (written in Java) that will help us verify the security of our VMware hosts (ESX or ESXi), recommended as one of the best practices to be carried out in our environment in order to secure or detect problems, obtaining a detailed report of the recommendations to be made on each host.

Using VMware Go

Hoy se puede ver en la web de Shavlik que ha sido adquirida por VMware, así que os presento (para el que no conozca) VMware Go, que es una herramienta desarrollada por ambas compañias en colaboración, es gratuita y online, que permite administrar de forma limitada nuestra infraestructura virtual VMware, es una herramienta pensada para los nuevos y pequeños clientes que se adentran en el nuevo mundo de VMware y quieren comenzar desde una gestión sencilla. Esta herramienta dispone de su versión gratuita (que es la que veremos en este documento) y la versión VMware Go Pro de pago que dispondrá completará las carencias de su versión free.

Using VMware Storage IO Control

One of the new features of vSphere 4.1 is VMware Storage IO Control (SIOC) that will allow us to improve disk performance when using resource allocations on virtual machines. In vSphere we can assign different priorities to a virtual machine at the CPU level, RAM and disk; as well as CPU and RAM are prioritized only by the host that runs them, on disk access (shared) prioritize it proportionally among the rest of the hosts. Requirements: vSphere 4.1 Enterprise Plus, a single vCenter will manage the warehouses, Supported for FC and iSCSI (no NFS or RDM/RAW), Multiple Extensions Not Supported.

Using VMware ThinApp in VMware View 4.6

In this document, we'll look at how to integrate into VMware View 4.6 the applications we can distribute with VMware ThinApp, With this we will be able to achieve a clean distribution of equipment and distribute applications that users need through streaming with all the advantages that the combination of both technologies entails,

Using VMware View Composer 4.6

Con VMware View Composer conseguiremos distribuir escritorios a los usuarios a partir de una misma imagen para todos, sin tener que andar clonando una máquina virtual origen, or have one full virtual machine per user, This is, los escritorios que generemos a partir de esto no tendrán un disco duro virtual, If not a link’ to a replica of the original virtual hard drive. With this we will achieve impressive storage savings, For example, if we design that our Desktops we want them to have 20Gb of disk, You don't need to allocate that amount to each VM, if, for example, we are going to distribute 50 Desks: 50MV x 20Gb = 1TB of space for VDI or VMware View environment only, as this does not make much sense, VMware View Composer is used to deploy Desktops from a single image, these new Desktops will occupy only their swap memory plus space (optional) What […]