I installed HP SMH on one server and I am able to monitor that single server. But can I use the HP SMH tool to monitor multiple servers?
HP SMH is a freeware and can be used for single server.HP SIM is the tool not a freeware can be used to monitor multiple server
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I am beginner in VMware. I am trying to understand the VMware components and how it works.But I could not understand how vsphere Client access the EXSi host. Is it directly or through the VMWare VCenter server.please give any reference or explanation to get the understanding.
Using vSphere client you can connect to vCenter or directly to host. Of course if host is added to vCenter you should to connect ONLY to vCenter because vCenter should to know about any changes made on hosts. Connecting directly to host should be done ony in emergency situations (e.g. vCenter is down).
V-Center is the umbrella, under which all EXSI can be controlled. We can assume an example of a company where we have 3 physical servers installed ESXi on it and each server has as many processors cores so it can handle 5 virtual machines on it.
Now What is EXSi ---- EXSI is the product/OS/kernel which will allow you to create the environment to run multiple Servers/OS on the same hardware.
V-sphere client/V-sphere Web client --- If you have only one EXSI Server and you want to control that server functionality you need v-sphere because taking direct connection of EXSI Hardware machine will not allow you to do much with it. so the v-sphere client will give you many tools to play with it.
V-Center/VC ----- Now what if when your company has many ESXi servers as we taken for example. V-Sphere can not control all of those into one centralized platform. Here VC comes into play. VC allow you to manage all of these servers under one tool and many other functionalities which are not available in V-Sphere like Distribution switch, V-Motion(Which allow you to migrate one VM machine from Hardware to hardware in the fluctuation of time or not human noticeable time ).
I have a Windows Server 2012 with only one ethernet card, and a VMWare workstation 11 installed on this server box.
I need to run multiple VMWares on this server box and connect to these VMWares from other machines within the same network of the server box. Thus, I need to assign an individual IP address to each VMWare.
I tried to make the network setting in each VMWare be bridged, but I can't ping the VMWares from the host system (the server box).
Is there any missing configuration?
Do I need to have more than one ethernet card? Or can more than one VMWare take different IPs shared with the host?
I have a environment where I have a huge pool of machines (60 thus far en growing each day), now these machines are used in a testing environment and machines do not need to be online around the clock as were paying for CPU time so I want to create a system where our users can turn on machines without having to logon through either vSphere desktop client or the vSphere site. Now i know there are systems such as plesk and similar but these are way over the top of what we need for an internal system.
Are there any API for VMWare that lets me remotely turn on virtual machines on demand?
We are running ESXi 5.1.0 on our hosts.
I am building a web application, not hosted by the client but on the cloud somewhere, probably azure. It will need the ability to access some local devices such as a receipt printer or cash draw from where they run it. Via a browser this is obviously not possible.
I was thinking of creating a service that they can install locally on their PC that listens to a web service and when it gets a message can perform the tasks such as opening the cash draw.
Is this how people have done similar things in the past? Are there other methods? What technologies do you recommend as I plan on the local service being able to be run on either PC or Mac with minimum fuss. I was considering either Flex or Mono (the app was written in ASP.NET), any other suggestions?
I'm going to develop mostly Django sites on a MacBook Pro and would like to use Ubuntu VMs for testing purposes.
Which product is better suited for this purpose?
Can I connect to the VM via TCP/IP (so I can have apache running on the VM and access it from Safari on my MBP)?
Thanks!
It should be possible using VMWARE FUSION. It has a good network management, and you should be able to access easily your vm via network.
I've successfully used both VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion for this. On both systems, you can set the guest up so that it has its own IP address, and connect to it via HTTP, SSH and even native file sharing, so you can mount the guest's drive as a network drive from the Mac, and vice versa. This makes it possible to do the editing on the Mac in eg Textmate, but run the server on the VM.
I can only tell you about my experiences with a Core2Quad Q6600 on VMWare Fusion 3.0. I have three boot partitions on this system (ahem yes it is a hackintosh running with the E-Fix USB).
So i can do performance measurements. I use it for sometimes very large compiler sessions. And the amazing fact was that Linux as a Guest runs without any measureable time difference on virtualised and native Linux. Windows7 on the other hand only runs with 40% on my machine and GUI is allmost non useable while the GNOME Desktop from latest Ubuntu still works fine.
Check this out. Virtual Box is free so there is nothing to loose.