Usage meter is a rather ugly piece of VMware software whose sole purpose is to monitor memory allocation and reservations. It is tied to licensing costs for some implementations (e.g. Service Providers). Unfortunately, it's also a major PITA to use. Luckily, there is an API! As we have several
This post takes rather detailed look at my current home lab. Host Configuration Two HP DL360 G5 Two hosts identically configured with Dual E5420 Procs/16GB RAM. A single 146GB 15k drive is in each and used as temporary storage. Each HP has their iLO configured for remote management and
It's easy to go from vCloud to vCenter: link Not so much from vCenter to vCloud... Here's a function I came upon in the #vmware channel on freenode to relate vCenter VMs to vCloud VMs using PowerCLI: function Get-CIVMfromVM { <# .SYNOPSIS Converts a vCenter VM Object into a vCloud VM
Adventures in making a VMware home lab Goals: Fully redundant ESXi hosts (so that I can host a virtual vCenter server and do updates Have a decent amount of compute to handle current and future loads Room to grow Where I'm at Three hosts Dell T110 (1x X3430/12GB RAM)