Posted by: hbr in vscsiStats, troubleshooting, script, esx on
Aug 17, 2011
In my post on sizing up the storage for block size usage, I wrote a script to get the data into a manageable form. This script runs fine from the command line but you probably want to have some sort of trend to analyze.
Posted by: hbr in vscsiStats, script, python, esx on
Feb 9, 2011
vscsiStats is a new VMware tool that helps give insight in disk IOs and latency and stuff like that. It’s a very useful tool but it dumps data in histograms. Using these in Excel is quite a pain because Excel knows histograms (with add-ins) but only one at a time. If you want a graph a whole LUN or other lower level part of the storage over time, you need to reformat the data. And luckily, ESX, like most Linux versions nowadays, comes with a python interpreter. Now I know a lot of different scripting languages but python wasn’t one of them. So I decided to write a small python script to do the reformatting for me to allow me to draw nice 3D graphics of block size over time.
This is part 2 of a quick guide to importing a VM into Lab Manager using Orchestrator. In case you missed it, part 1 is available on http://virtuall.eu/blog/import-a-vm-in-lab-manager-using-orchestrator.
There are a lot of things you can automate in a virtual infrastructure. One of the tools that can help automate the more complex workflows is Orchestrator. It’s free when you have a vCenter and it’s very powerful.
This post is a quick gathering of a few small scripts I wrote with my IT-life's motto: "Never do anything twice"
Posted by: hbr in server virtualization, esx, eda, deploy on
Sep 15, 2009
The current version is 0.95. Download the main appliance from Download v0.95. Don't forget to use the alternate OVF file at the same download location if you need to import the VM into previous Virtual Infrastructure versions. This guide is written for previous versions but except for some first time wizards, it still applies to the newest release.
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