ESXI Managment / VCAP

Hi All
I have been looking at the management of ESXi over the last few weeks. It would appear there is very little out there on managment of it for advacned administrators such as myself. Most people seem to be content with managing it from vCenter or the console. I have found several times it is not easy to do this and when troubleshooting it dosnt provide much information or assistance.

VMware do have a vMA. This is a basic Linux machine running as a mock service console. It allows you to attache multiple ESX and ESXi machines to it and then manage then using more or less the same commands as you would from the service console in a full ESX install. There are limitations as it is not a service console and is only a collection of scripts that run to mock a service console.

I will be focusing on creating a powershell based management pack for my company in the next couple of weeks. I will not be able to release that on here but I should be able to release a cut down version. I am not sure if I am going to do it in an appliance or as a standalone package. lets see how board I get.

I am also now looking to complete the VMware Certified Advanced Professional exam that has just been released. Will try and relay some helpful study information if I can.

Host currently has no management network redundancy.

Hi All
After a nice holiday I cam back into the office and eased myself back into the flow. I had a small rebuild to conduct from vSphere ESX to vSPhere ESXi U2. Rebuilding the hosts was very simple but after found I was being given this message on the vCenter

Host currently has no management network redundancy.

I could not see any problems as the vmKernal port had 4 vmnics. I reconfigured the HA for each host and then the problem started again.

In the end I looked around and found the following KB from VMware

KB1004700

Details that you can disable this alarm and it is a small glitch in the vCenter .