What I learned today..
Well, carrying on with my theme of reporting the new stuff I learn each day. Here’s what I learned in the last couple of hours.
ESX4i doesn’t have Web-Access:
Not that this really matters too much… But ESX4i doesn’t have web-access front end – where you can do VM Management – but ESX4 does. To be honest if your using this functionality its best delivered from the vCenter web-pages because, well, its Active Directory “aware” in the first place. Interestingly, in the place of the link for the web-access page – VMware has put download links to the vSphere Remote Command Line
Roles and Help from VMware:
Normally, if I create a new role – I use an existing sample – clone it and then modify it from that clone. In fact I’ve never ever create a new role from scratch. In vSphere4 if you create a new role and select a couple of privileges the system will offer suggestions of additional privileges that will be probably required for the whole task to be completed. Personally, I will be sticking with my cloning method – but its nice to know. What I would like to see VMware do is take this idea a step futher and make some kind of “delegation wizard” (I’m borrowing a term for Microsoft AD) to guide people thru the steps of some of the main permissions tasks – something that would really, really benefit VMware SRM customers!
Standard & Distributed Portgroups – Drag & Drop:
Say you want to move a whole bunch of VMs from portgroup to another – well in the past you would have edit each VM (tedious) or used some whizzy bit of PowerShell like this:
get-vm | get-networkadapter | sort-object -property “NetworkName” | where {‘VLAN10′ -contains $_.NetworkName} | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName ‘VLAN11′
I still like that. But what I learn today is if your using vCenter4, you can in the “Network View” drag-and-drop many VMs to their correct portgroup. You can do a similiar kind of task using the “migrate” wizard from the DvSwitch…
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