After upgrading a server to Ubuntu 12.04 (from 10.04) and the vSphere SDK for Perl to the latest version one of my scripts started running into a problem giving me a SOAP request error. After digging into the update logs I found that this problem happened due Net-HTTP being upgraded to 6.05 (from 6.03), after a downgrade to 6.03 the problem was resolved. You can downgrade by running the following command.
VMware Labs released a new Fling called Lctree which is short for Linked Clone Tree Visualizer for vCloud Director. The download is available as tar package and the total size is about 17MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Lctree is a tool designed for the visualization of linked clone VM trees created by VMware vCloud Director. Linked clone is a feature available in vSphere that creates a clone of a VM from a snapshot point. The new VM’s disks…
VMware announced a FREE online training course called “VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals [5.1]“. This course is a self-paced course which lasts 3.5 hours and it’s available through myLearn training. The VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals self-paced course introduces students to the components, architecture, functions, and benefits of vCloud Director. For more information regarding vCloud Director I suggest reading the “what’s new” document. Objectives Briefly explain cloud computing Recognize cloud implementations Identify VMware vCloud Director functions and benefits Analyze vCloud Director architecture…
VMware released a new book regarding ThinApp 4.7 Essentials writen by Peter Björk. This book will explain in about 250 pages how to package applications into a portable way. The book contains 7 chapters full of information. You can order it now over at Packtpub or Amazon! VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. “VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials” shows you how to deploy ThinApp…
One of the new cool announcement at VMworld 2012 in Barcelona was the support for managing Hyper-V servers using the web client. There has always been a fling (vCenter XVP Manager and Converter) for this but it has now become an extra feature. VMware has now released version 1.0 for free. VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager is a component that enables support for heterogeneous hypervisors in VMware vCenter Server. It provides the following benefits to your virtual environment: An integrated platform…