here we go again

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Version 0.7 is done.

I’ve been fiddling with the networking section to get it as good as I can. This is the one section where I do need to use a few COS commands, as sometimes its the only way. I’m pretty happy with its "facts to size" ratio.

Unfortunately, I think the planned section for the common hardware management agents (IBM Director, Dell OpenManage & HP InsightManager) is going to have to be dropped. I just don’t think I’m going to have space. I think I could do IBM director in 4 lines, but I’m not so familiar with the other two (anyone got any links to Dell’s and HP’s setups?) I’ll just need to wait and see. I’ve still got Storage (FC, iSCSI & NFS), Resources (DRS, Resource Pools, Clusters & HA) and VCB, all to squeeze into one column. Eek.

As usual, let me know if you have any comments.

3i USB key

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I managed to get my hands on a VMworld 3i USB key and was also accepted into the 3.5 beta programme. Both on the same day. However, it means that I’m now bound by the beta rules, until 3.5 goes GA.

I am already starting to draft a 3i command vreference card, as there is loads of good information available on the web:

http://scalethemind.com/

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/

Mike Laverik of RTFM fame has written one of his guides for this , but as its only available to those who attended VMworld and VCIs, I guess I’ll have to wait. It be interesting what he manages to find and what I miss.

Version 0.6

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Version 0.6 of the ESX3 vreference card is out! Grab it here .

The big addition is the ESX host section. However, I have also added in some folding guides and increased the size of the text boxes so I can squeeze even more ESX goodness in. It works OK with the two printers I have access to, but if it causes an issue for lots of people I’ll revisit this.

Once I have got this card to 1.0 and things have settled down, I plan to release a "letter" sized version.