Virtuall BLOG tagged 'vmware'

Scheduled View VM refresh

hbr@pqr.nl — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0100

If you use non persistent desktops with VMware View, there are two options to reset the machine to its default state. One is immediately after a user logs off, the other is manually by a View Administrator. Currently, there is no way to schedule a VM reset at, say, 2PM.

A VM reset generates a lot of IOPS. So doing this in a production environment that's strained for IOPS is a performance risk (read http://virtuall.eu/download-document/vdi-storage-deep-impact!). But having adm [...]

vCenter Orchestrator and LabManager 4

hbr@pqr.nl — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

With vCenter 4.0 comes vCenter Orchestrator. This workflow management software was originally developed by Dunes was the base for Lab Manager and Stage Manager.

Orchestrator is installed by default when vCenter server is installed but to use it, you have to enable it. It doesn't require any additional licenses.

To enable Orchestrator, go to services.msc and set the "VMware vCenter Orchestrator Configuration" service to autostart and start the service.

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Importing an NEWER OVF format VM into an older environment

hbr@pqr.nl — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:00:00 +0100

If you have a vSphere or Workstation 7 environment like me and you export a virtual machine to an OVF format, older VMware products are unable to import them. You'll get a message like:

'unsupported hardware family vm-07'

'host does not support the virtual hardware version'

To resolve this follow these simple steps:

create a new VM with the specs of the OVF templateexport that VM to an OVF copy the OVF file to the directory of the VM you're tr [...]