My IT Adventure
You almost can do everything as long as vRealize Automation Center (aka vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (aka vRO) are integrated. I think that’s the hard part if you are newbie like me. After reading lot of articles, I learned how it works. Following is my experience, please let me know if you see anything wrong.
把vRA和vRO结合在一起几乎可以做任何事情。如果你和我一样是新手，和uijuede 得整合这块比较难，最近阅读了一些这方面的文章，算是有所了解了。以下是我的见解，如果有问题留言给我。
It’s frustration to check RDM information, you have to check across all ESXi hosts to make sure configuration is aligned. I just figured out two line commands to get path selection policy (aka PSP).
Continue reading “How to Get Path Selection Policy of Physical RDM LUN by PowerCLI”
Microsoft just released technical preview 3 of Windows Server 2016, it’s catching up VMware on SDDC. I can see a lot of enhancement in the new version. A stable hypervisor is prerequisite of SDDC but it’s weakness of Microsoft. You have to patch and reboot frequently, some organizations even have regular reboot schedules. Microsoft introduced core mode on Windows Server 2008, it much enhanced on Windows Server 2012 R2. But Windows Server 2012 R2 aims to SBM. I didn’t think SBM organizations really need that if you compare operation complexity of core mode with GUI.
Continue reading “Core mode of Windows Server 2016 TP3 – Remote Management Tip”
ESXi 5.5 Update 2 is stable version, but I got PSOD on one UCS blade few days ago. It scared me since there was a big bug when I upgraded ESXi from 5.1 to 5.5 Update 1 last year(See detail ESXi 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC), it lead to dozen virtual machines crashed over and over again.I bet I’m gonna to die if it happens again. 🙂
ESXi 5.5 Update 2 算得上比较稳定的版本了，但前几天遇到一台紫屏，差点儿吓尿了。半年前从ESXi 5.1升级到ESXi5.5 Update 1时候遇到个大BUG（详情见我的文章ESXi 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC），搞得几十台几十台机器挂，这次升级再来一次估计职业生涯就此结束了。
The title looks scared, is it? Actually I don’t want to talk about any problem of VMware product but just a feature.
标题看起来吓人吧？其实这次打算只谈谈功能。
I always treat virtual machine snapshots like a big risk. It caused several outages in our infrastructure. Please check out Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware to understand how it impacts production.
虚拟机快照对我来说绝对是个大威胁，已经在我的生产环境里发生过好几次由此引发的故障了。如果你要了解快照对生产环境的影响可以看看：Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware
Continue reading “How to Automate Snapshot on Virtual Machine”
Someone setup a non-secure wifi around my apartment, I never connected it till yesterday since I worried it’s may be a honeypot. I had some me time yesterday night, so I setup a virtual machine to connect the wifi.
I wrote a post about how to integrate PowerCLI with PowerShell manually. I rebuilt my computer few days ago, need to integrate PowerCLI again. I used to scripting by PowerGUI, but something always lead to PowerGUI lost menu, it frustrated me a long time. I cannot figured out what’s the root cause. So I wondered is it possible use PowerShell ISE instead of PowerGUI?
Continue reading “How to integrate PowerCLI with PowerShell and PowerShell ISE”
I just found an article show how to check alignment of Windows virtual machine and datastore.
刚找到一篇关于 如何查看Windows虚拟机和ESXi datastore是否和存储扇区一致 的文章。
vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2e contains fix of Storage Monitor Service. It’s also a stable version since 5.5 Update 1. I got a problem when I upgraded my development vCenter Server last weekend. I’d like to share the solution since VMware doesn’t document that problem. (Maybe I didn’t find it. :-)) It’s kind tricky.
vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2e包含SMS服务的bug修复，它也是当前比较稳定的版本。上周我在升级vCenter Server到这个版本时遇到了一个问题。此问题不是那么容易修复因为VMware的KB并没有提供解决方案，我在这里把我的方法共享出来。
Continue reading “CustomAction VM_InstallJRE returned actual error code 1624”