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Comment on Using Hyperic to monitor vSphere by vneil

vneil — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:24:44 +0000

I didn’t have to open any ports, my vCenter Server is still running on W2003 with no firewalls inbetween. You could try posting a question on the forum, it worked for me. I found that I had to stop and start the agent from the command line with hq-agent.bat rather than in the services.msc.

I did get an answer to my problem of the adding two vCenter servers causing corruption. The solution seems to be to change the http://localhost/sdk in the configuration properties of the vCenter resource to be http://ip-address/sdk as it must use this as some sort of identity of the resource and having two the same causes problems.

Comment on Using Hyperic to monitor vSphere by Heath

Heath — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:32:19 +0000

Thanks for the tips! God forbid they put that in the documentation anywhere. I have it working sort of…
I have followed everything above trying different users, passwords etc, but still no luck. The Vsphere Server shows, but cannot get any of the ESX hosts or VMs to show up. I did find that I had to open up port 2144 on the Windows 2008 firewall to get the agent to run. Did you have to open any other ports for SOAP/SDK?

Comment on VMware and SLES: a good match? by Administrator Experiences with VMware and SUSE Linux « UNIX Administratosphere

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:09:50 +0000

[...] Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) directly on VMware vSphere. Neil over at VirtuallyNil wrote about his experiences with SLES and VMware ESXI. Unfortunately, he had some problems with VMware’s additions to [...]

Comment on Too many interruptions by vneil

vneil — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:20:40 +0000

It seems this is fixed in ESXi4.0 U2. Haven’t seen any occurrences since upgrading.

Comment on Setting preferred paths in ESXi by VCAP-DCA Objective 8.3 – Administer vSphere Using the vSphere Management Assistant

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:58:53 +0000

[...] This blog entry shows off a little powershell for setting a preferred path. Most of the reference for storage multipathing will be from the below. Additionally the vSphere Troubleshooting course is a good target for this type of exercise. [...]

Comment on Too many interruptions by Rod Mach

Rod Mach — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:56:32 +0000

divider=10 is the workaround like was mentioned, I have seen this at several sites and this fixed it. The SR says will be fixed in 4.1

Comment on Too many interruptions by vneil

vneil — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:31:25 +0000

Hi Rod,
When you say 4.1 do you mean vSphere 4.1 ?

Cheers,
Neil.

Comment on Too many interruptions by vneil

vneil — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:48:37 +0000

Thanks Didier, I saw that parameter mentioned in KB1006427 with regard to RedHat systems and though about trying it. The problem is of course this seems to be a bit random on which server it affects. At the moment we don’t have any problems

I will carry on investigating and maybe post a follow-up article if I find anything.

Cheers,
Neil.

Comment on Too many interruptions by PiroNet

PiroNet — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:50:32 +0000

Could that be a timer interrupt issue? maybe it’s too high for a VM? Often the default is 1000 for many distro’s

Try booting with “divider=10″ to lower it down to 100 which far enough for a VM

Cheers,
Didier

Comment on Upgrading to vSphere on ESXi by vneil

vneil — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:35:15 +0000

Thanks for the tip but I’ve spoken to IBM and they say the image on the VMware site has no customisation. They haven’t altered the CIM providers from the default version that came from VMware.