The Hurdles
October 27th, 2006 by Lou
Most of the lab work I’ve been doing on the x4100 and x4600 has been relatively straightforward. Looking ahead, most of the things that require thought and consideration are the same issues that plague data centers now.
- VMWare doesn’t by itself give you a lot of information about individual vm’s misbehaving except through reports and alarms. The Virtual Center charts are all by disk and by cpu and by network. That is, they are by resource not service.
- Keeping track of virtual machines as they proliferate is likely to be more difficult than keeping track of physical machines. How do I make the virtual light blink on the front of the virtual box in my virtual data center? How will I see it?
- Cloning is cool, and snapshots are very helpful, but the best way to build from scratch is scripted. I need a virtual jumpstart server.
- The behavior of Cicso VPN client in an RDP session is quite annoying. Basically, its a system service that needs attention at the console when you start it, so if you are remote, it doesn’t work. I hope there aren’t a lot of things out there like this, but I’m certain the next time I run into something like this in the “real world” it will take a lot of wasted time and effort to mitigate.
vmware, x4100, x4600
Seems I’ve been thinking along the same lines. Virtual jumpstart would be very cool. I need to read up more on PXE boot; haven’t done Solaris x86 Jumpstart before.