Monthly Archives: November 2007

VMware VI ESX VCB backup commands

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You can put your default VCHOST, USERNAME, PASSWORD in /etc/vmware/backuptools if you prefer

VMFS folders
$ vcbUtil -h localhost -u root -p password -s vmfolders

VMs

$ vcbVmName -h localhost -u root -p password -s any:

Backup

$ vcbMounter -h localhost -u root -p password -a uuid:myvm -r /vmimages/vmbk

Restore (to same location)

$ vcbRestore -h localhost -u root -p password -a uuid:myvm -r /vmimages/vmbk

Restore (to different location)

$ vcbRestore -h localhost -u root -p password -s /vmimages/vmbk/myvm -a /vmimages/my-alt-catalog

B2V Guide to VMware 3

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B2V Guide to VMware VI 2 & ESX 3

http://www.b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware3.htm

This guide has been compiled by the consultants & trainers at Taupo Consulting and is based upon their personal experiences with the VMware ESX Server 3 product and is updated frequently. The information in this guide is not verified or sanctioned by VMware Inc. and we encourage our website visitors to use www.vmware.com/vmtn as their primary source of VMware product information. We are of course delighted if you find our shared experience documented in this guide of use in your environment and always appreciate being linked to.

vmktree for VMware Server

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vmktree is a free web tool that shows you the graphs of resource usage of VMware ESX 2 Server, VMware Server (on Linux) and GSX Server (on Linux). On ESX vmktree depends on vmkusage that is part of the VMware-esx-perf package, a utility from VMware that is included in VMware ESX Server 2.1.x and 2.5.x. For older versions it must be downloaded from vmware. vmkusage does not exist on VI 2 ESX 3. vmktree generates graphs as needed while vmkusage generate static graphs every five minutes.

If you are using CentOS 4 as your VMware Server host OS you’ll need to install RRDTOOL first

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rrdtool/

Oracle XEN VM Server

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http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+VM

Oracle VM is free server virtualization software from Oracle that supports Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization. Both Linux and Windows guests are supported. (See FAQ.)
Consisting of Xen’s open source server software and an integrated Web browser-based management console, Oracle VM provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for creating and managing virtual server pools, running on x86 and x86-64-based systems, across an enterprise.

Oracle VM

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Oracle is entering the virtualization space with Oracle VM

http://www.oracle.com/technologies/virtualization/index.html

http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/11/12/oracle-vm-takes-on-everyone/

News broke this morning that Oracle is entering the virtualization space with Oracle VM. Toes were stepped on, canned analyst comments were issued via press release, and the virtualization space once again proved that it is hot, hot, hot and has no intention of settling down just yet.

According to Oracle, its new server virtualization software supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle products like Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are all certified with Oracle VM.

KVM virtualisation by QUMRANET

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KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko.

http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Status

kvm hosts

kvm guests