Thursday, February 21, 2008

Storage Vmotion with a GUI

Hi,

I know I'm not the first that had this idea, to create a tool like this, but it was fun to make and it's fun to share.

So if you want to do a storage vmotion without installing a remote CLI and with the ease of a GUI, check out http://www.svmotion.com

Things to know about my tool and storage vmotion :

  • Storage Vmotion has a bug that crashes your VM, the tool checks if the VM is effected by this bug and cancels the SVmotion.  See also Vmware KB.
  • Other functions like export settings and a multi server service console user management thingy ...

Next steps for me ... in this tool ... extend it to be able to move multi datastore VMs and select different destinations for .vmx, and .vmdk's.

any remarks can be sent to gui@svmotion.com

K.

Friday, February 1, 2008

VMware VDM with a security server. It's easy if you know how :-)

I tried to install VDM with the security server in the DMZ but ran in some connectivity issue's.  Seems after a 1 day testing I found the clue.  First our setup :

VDM Connection Server : 192.168.0.10 (LAN)

Test Desktop : 192.168.0.20 (LAN)

VDM Security Server : 192.168.1.2 (DMZ)

External IP : x.y.z.c (WAN-IP or FQDN)

 

First item to check on the external URL setting in the VDM Connection server put in : https://192.168.0.10:443

On the VDM Security Server, go to "c:\Program Files\Vmware\Vmware VDM\Server\sslgateway\conf".

 

Create a file named "locked.properties" open it with notepad and put in the next text :

clientHost=x.y.z.c
clientPort=443
clientProtocol=https

 

Save and close it, restart the VDM Security Service and the VDM Connection Services and you are good to go.

Off course you are also able to put a FQDN instead of the x.y.z.c

Hèhè

K.