Virtualization Team

VMware vCenter Chargeback VM instance model is overcharging

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:02:22 +0000

VM instance model in VMware vCenter ChargeBack up to version 2.0.1 still has no prorating on charges. For those of you who is not sure what I am describing by VM Instance below how its described in the “VMware-Technote-Using-vCenter-Chargeback-vCloud-Director” document as well a screenshot of where you configure VM instance in vCenter ChargeBack: “VM Instance [...]

VMware vCenter ChargeBack Cost Models & vCloud Director Allocation models & Overage

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:50:20 +0000

Since the introduction of vCenter ChargeBack integration with VMware vCloud Director & I hear repeatedly questions about how its Cost Models charge in a VMware vCD environment. To be honest, the question usually come in the form that vCenter ChargeBack is not calculating the cost as I expected & something wrong with it. Most of [...]

VMware vCenter ChargeBack Report does not display Disk Read and Disk Write & Network Transmitted and Network Received information

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:07:31 +0000

It seems the problem of vCenter ChargeBack report not displaying certain info is becoming a popular question lately. Actually this was pointed out to me earlier today by a colleague who was reviewing my vCD design. The most common info not displayed in a vCenter ChargeBack Report are below: vCenter ChargeBack Report Does Not Display [...]

VMware vExperts 2012 has been announced

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:42:31 +0000

At first I wanted to congrats every one who was elected as vExperts for 2012. Second I wanted to celebrate being on the list while being a VMware employee. As many of you know, that earlier years VMware employees could not be chosen as vExperts nonetheless of how much effort they spent in enlightening Virtualization [...]

Make sure to include the port number after SQL host name when setting up VMware vCD 1.5.1 using SQL

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:05:38 +0000

While setting up VMware vCloud Director 1.5 using MS SQL Server, you will need to enter the SQL Server & database information during the configuration phase of the setup. Although during the configuration wizard you are asked which port SQL Use and the answer to that is given to be “default” which you will assume [...]

How to Add a Second vCloud Director Cell

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:01:03 +0000

I have been lately seeing the question of how to add a Second vCloud Director Cell to an existing single Cell VMware vCloud Director Setup to build a multi-cell vCloud Director raising often. Actually the question seems to get to phrased differently by different people. The most heard question, is how to increase the availability [...]

PHD Virtual Monitor for VMware Step by Step Installation & Configuration

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:15:57 +0000

As I have spent sometime evaluating PHD Virtual Monitor to post the review on my Backup & Disaster Recovery/Management blog TSMGuru Blog, I have went through the installation/configuration process and thought I may as well share them on here for people trying to install or just test PHD Virtual Monitor for VMware. On here, I [...]

How to Export your VM Inventory list from vCenter

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:03:12 +0000

Time will come when you need a quick inventory of the VMs in your vCenter with their IPs, Computer name, power on status & all these simple things. You might just need that sheet b/c you need to keep an inventory of what you have or just the for the simple cause that the management [...]

Manually installing the vCloud Director Agent on ESXi 5 / vSphere 5

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:06:26 +0000

Playing with my vCloud Director lab lately, I have end up with a trouble adding one of my ESXi 5 hosts to my vCloud Director 1.5 due to an error installing the vCloud Director agent. I knew I have used the same host with beta install of vCloud Director before, & that could be the [...]

Virtual Machines vDS Network Interfaces configuration in VMX file is lost upon removing it from inventory

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:56:54 +0000

Today while doing a manual DR failback test at one of the customers sites where they use Virtual Distributed Switches, I have noticed when removing/adding a Virtual Machine to inventory it lose the configuration for its network interface of which port group its connected to and the like. As the customer was running vSphere 4.1u1, [...]