Run esxtop on ESXi from VIMA
When it comes to troubleshooting on VMware ESX, esxtop is a tool that always comes in handy. CPU, memory, network and disk-related problems can be pinpointed with esxtop. Unfortunately, esxtop must be executed from the service console and my ESXi server doesn’t have that. I was looking for a way to use esxtop with ESXi and I found out that you can use resxtop. resxtop is the Remote CLI version of esxtop.
Difference between free ESXi and licensed ESXi
Rich Brambley over at VMetc.com updated his very popular article about the difference between the free ESXi and the licensed ESXi. One major improvement since Update 3 is:
RCLI is no longer read only. You can read and write changes thus making remote administration possible.
Thanks Rich for the update!
VMware VMDK Recovery Tool (ESX 3.5 Update 3)
I was searching for information about the new experimental tool for ESX 3.5 VMDK Recovery Tool and I found a great knowledgebase article at VMware. VMDK Recovery Tool is a tool to recover VMDK files if they become deleted, or if the VMFS datastore gets deleted or corrupted. There are some limitations to the tool:
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The tool is experimental. Experimental means that the tool is not supported and might not work as expected in all customer environments.
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The tool is not available for ESXi.
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You cannot restore from multiple block list files.
Unfortunately, currently at home I only have ESXi running and I have no customer running U3 already. Anyone who tried VMDK Recovery Tool yet?
Always usefull : concrete comparison between ESX3 and ESX3i
Most people who read our blog know something about virtualization so probably know what VMWare ESX and VMWare ESXi are. But pointed the following KB article from VMWare out to me and I find it pretty usefull because it really clearly sums up the differences between the full ESX and the free ESXi product.
As expected: VMware ESXi is free!
Virtualization.info comes with the news that as of next week, VMware ESXi will be available for free.
During the Q2 2008 earnings call the company announced that before the end of July it will release the Update 2 for VMware Infrastructure 3.5 and that will give away the lightweight edition of the product, ESX 3i, for free.
It was already expected and sort of announced that ESXi would soon be available for free, but I expected it to be announced at VMworld 2008. This is going to give a great boost to VMware in the SMB market.
I’m wondering if this affects the pricing of VI 3.5 standard and enterprise, as these products also contains the basic hypervisor…
Update: the source for this info: The VMware partner portal.
