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Phil is a Solutions Architect at XenTegra, based in Charlotte, NC, with over 20 years of industry experience. He loves solving complex, technology problems by breaking down the impossible into tangible achievements - and by thinking two or three steps ahead of where we are today. He has spent most of my career as an infrastructure technologist in hands-on roles, even while serving as a leader. His perspective is one of servant leadership, working with his team to build something greater collectively. Having been lucky to have many opportunities and doorways opened during his career - Phil has a diverse background as a programmer, a writer, an analyst all while staying grounded in infrastructure technology.

DatacenterStorage

HPE Primera is company’s new mission critical data array built for simplicity

by Philip Sellers
written by Philip Sellers

This week at HPE Discover in Las Vegas, HPE announced a new storage platform, HPE Primera, built on the technologies of both its Nimble and 3PAR storage lines. The new platform is targeted for mission critical workloads and offers a 100% uptime guarantee for customers.

The new array draws a lot of from the 3PAR line of storage arrays, with scale and speed in the new all-flash Primera. There is shared heritage and data services between the two platforms and HPE is committed to 3PAR in the mid-market for the future – meaning these two lines will co-exist for some amount of time. The portability of data using Peer Copy as well as the ability to protect data with Peer Persistence (aka Metro Storage Clustering for VMware folks) mean that these arrays can protect your data to provide the 100% uptime guaranteed by the company.

In terms of the Nimble heritage for the array, two key features made their way into Primera – Infosight and Simplicity. Gone are the legacy 3PAR constructs of CPG creation and other base setup — the Nimble simplicity is front and center in Primera. While the introduction of 3PAR SSMC (StoreServ Management Console) went a long way to simplifying the complexity under the covers of 3PAR, Primera is said to go even further in simplification towards the startup and administration model of Nimble.

Infosight plays a primary role in the Primera arrays. While HPE has worked to bring 3PAR and Infosight together, the company has native support in the Primera platform – taking advantage of building a brand-new array and platform. In fact, Infosight is large component of how HPE is delivering the 100% uptime guarantee.

In terms of guarantees, the 100% uptime is a bit disappointing. While it sounds great in terms of guaranteed uptime, the penalty of a miss is not substantial for the company. The 100% uptime offers customers up to 20% of the cost of the array back for use with upgrades and future purchases. So essentially, the company if offering store credit for your money spent. I get that it is value, but its not a pure guarantee like most other SLA guarantees.

HPE says the Primera storage arrays will be available for ordering in August, 2019, but no pricing was announced. For more information, see https://hpe.com/storage/Primera.

Disclaimer: HPE paid for my trip to attend HPE Discover. All thoughts and writing in this post are my own views and opinions and not reviewed or dictated by HPE.

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ComputeDatacenterVirtualization

HP/HPE Physical to VMware conversion for Windows 2008 R2 blue screens

by Philip Sellers
written by Philip Sellers

Recently, I was converting an HP/HPE Windows 2008 R2 physical server into VMware (yes, P2V still happens), when I hit a blue screen on boot.  Turned out I was getting an Inaccessible Boot Volume stop error – a partial screenshot is below.

bluescreen 151

Problem was, the blue screen went by so quickly that I had a difficult time capturing what the stop code or issue was before the VM rebooted.  Turns out it was a simple boot issue to solve.  The VM was moving to an LSI Logic SAS controller in VMware.  That driver was not enabled in the image.  The following steps will walk you through enabling LSI SAS to allow the VM to boot.

  1. Launch recovery mode – this was automatically available on the menu after my failed boot.
  2. On the welcome screen, select Next.
  3. Launch Command Prompt.
  4. Run regedit.
  5. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then select File > Load Hive from Menu.
  6. Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Config\SYSTEM.
  7. Give the Hive a temporary name.  The temporary name will be added under HKLM. I called mine TEMP.
  8. Expand your new temporary name.
  9. Find key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/TEMP/System/CurrentControlSet001/Services/LSI_SAS
  10. Change Start to 0.  (mine was set to 3).
  11. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/TEMP, then select File > Unload Hive from Menu.
  12. Reboot.

Thanks to this older post over on serverfault for the steps.

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CloudComputeDatacenter

Introduction to Cisco Intersight and what cloud system management offers

by Philip Sellers
written by Philip Sellers

Last year, Cisco released a new cloud-based system management software named Intersight.  In the same vein as CIMC Supervisor, Intersight allows individual hosts to be registered into a central portal where they can be managed.  Currently licensed as a base, free level and an paid, essentials level, Intersight gives basic system management for your systems.  Intersight is a good first release, although the features that it offers are very slim.

Base License

Officially, the Base license offers the following ‘features,” however Base offers very little functionality that is compelling for C-Series users to adopt Intersight at the current time.  If you are using UCS B-Series and HyperFlex, you may get more out of the box – however, I don’t have any systems linked to our instance of either to know for sure.

    • Supports Cisco UCS and HyperFlex Systems
    • Global inventory and health status
    • Tagging and basic global search
    • Context-launch of element managers
    • Cisco HyperFlex installation
    • User customizable dashboard
  • Automated collection of TechSupport files for UCS Systems and HyperFlex ESXi Clusters

Essentials License

The Essentials License is priced on a subscription basis in 1-year, 3-year and 5-year terms.  The official list of functionality is listed below from their app:

    • All functionality of Base
    • Cisco UCS C-Series management
    • Policy-based configuration through Service Profiles
    • Detailed inventory and server actions
    • Firmware Management
    • Virtual Keyboard-Video-Mouse (vKVM)
  • Server HCL compliance check

For C-Series users, this is where things come alive.  Unfortunately, there are some definite deficiencies.   The nicest features are the single-signon ability to launch KVM and CIMC access directly from the cloud portal.

Firmware management for C-Series is nowhere near what I would expect of a product like this.  There is no automation, no library – simply the ability to push a firmware update with a lot of complicated controls from the website.  Firmware management is a let down.

The screenshot to the right shows the tangible tools you can expect on a C-Series server licensed with Essentials.

Requirements

Cisco Intersight supports Cisco UCS and Cisco HyperFlex platforms with the software versions:

  • Cisco UCS Manager Release 3.2(1) and later
  • Cisco IMC software Release 3.0(4) and later
  • Cisco HyperFlex 2.5.1 and later
  • Cisco UCS Director Release 6.6 and later

Cisco Intersight, when combined with Cisco UCS Director 6.6 and later, allows for updates to the southbound connectors as they are released, instead of having to wait for the next UCS Director release. This allows customers to rapidly support new hardware without having to go through a UCS Director upgrade.

The Good

Registration is fairly simple – you have a Device ID for each of your CIMC and it communicates directly with Intersight.  In addition, you have a Claim Code for a system that is able to talk with the cloud.  The Claim Code is basically a rotating password that allows you to register the device in the portal.

Once registered, all of the devices appear in the portal interface.  The inventory is activated and you are able to see system details.  Every system has a health indiciator and you can clearly see all the management IP’s for systems.  If a system is connected to a Fabric Interconnect, you also get the name of UCS Domain or HyperFlex cluster and its associated Server Profile.

The Bad

Firmware update for stand-alone systems is a disappointment.  It doesn’t offer anything differentiated.  Your options are to choose a lot of manual commands to kick off an immediate firmware update on a host.  Manual and immediate.  Neither are helpful features to administrators.  There is a lot of improvement to be had by the company that introduced the world to release sets and firmware bundles.  There should be a way to choose directly from the Cisco library of firmware and push those down to managed systems – without having to set all the manual options.

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DatacenterStorage

NVMe and Storage Spaces Direct are a match made in SQL heaven

by Philip Sellers
written by Philip Sellers

SQL Server is ready to take a ride directly on Microsoft’s Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), its own software defined storage (SDS) platform.  It is not new news – Microsoft has been talking about SQL on S2D since 2015 – but changes in the NVMe product offerings are changing the possibilities of very high performance from SDS architectures.

NVMe has evolved and with the acceleration of new technologies like Intel’s Optane storage class memory drives and expanding capacities like the Intel P4800 series, building highly-performant, software-defined storage is getting really easy.  That provides another opportunity for acceleration beyond what current NVMe drives can do today.

While Microsoft has been busy building Storage Space Direct as a hyper-converged, software-defined storage platform for its Hyper-V hypervisor – it also built a robust replicating file system suitable for SQL Server and even highly-available File Services platforms.

Storage vendors are starting to introduce Optane storage class memory as a caching layer, with HPE announcing this for its 3PAR and Nimble lines last week.   Pure Storage and NetApp are also busy working with storage class memory for their products and integrating NVMe into already shipping products.

Microsoft, for its part, has been busy building out support for its Storage Spaces Direct feature, which pools direct attached storage into a software SAN within Windows 2016 servers.  And about 2 years ago, during Microsoft Ignite 2016, Microsoft announced support for SQL Server 2016 on Storage Spaces Direct.  While it didn’t click initially, the use of NVMe and even Storage Class Memory with Storage Spaces direct may drive adoption for uses other than Hyper-V in many environments.

Storage Spaces Direct offers benefits and flexibility that traditional storage arrays do not.  While storage vendors are busy trying to establish ways to handle NVMe on fabric, Storage Spaces Direct and its use of RDMA have already solved some of these issues.

NVMe bypasses the traditional SCSI protocol for storage and uses its own protocol.  In a lot of use cases, it is not ready for prime time because it lacks the robust features like multipathing and bus sharing.  But under an SDS solution, NVMe can shine quite well.

The rise of high speed NVMe drives has given way to all sort of inventive ways to use them.   Hyperconverged architectures have been using NVMe for acceleration in their solutions for many years now, but with capacities of NVMe expanding, 2019 is going to be the year for primary storage shifting onto NVMe drives.  Because of the added cost, however, you won’t see a mass market shift, but you’ll see the highest value workloads exploring ways to make NVMe its primary storage.  I see a lot of bare bones arrays embracing NVMe rather than the big, traditional storage arrays whose data services (like compression and deduplication) would slow things down.

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Strategies to minimize costs for cellular data on international trips

by Philip Sellers
written by Philip Sellers

My wife and I have both been traveling internationally some this year.  She took a trip to celebrate a milestone birthday.  I have had some business trips abroad.  We’ve learned a few things about both Verizon and AT&T and international phone and data plans.  Hopefully you can use the information to save money and have the familiar services you rely on (like us).

Have a plan.

Do not just assume that you’ll be ok because that’s a recipe for very high bills afterwards.

Strategy #1 – Disable Cellular Data while traveling.

This minimizes the costs of international calling by ensuring that the data portion of your phone is disabled.  WiFi exists in many countries and works well as an alternative.  Most hotels also have WiFi available also.  For calling, you can use Google Hangouts or Skype to allow VoIP calling back to home.

This strategy is good for anyone traveling – no matter how often.

Strategy #2 – Enable International Day Passes.

Both Verizon and AT&T offer the International Day pass, however as I learned with AT&T – it is not an automatic program.  You have to opt into the International Day pass and there is no cost for it each month unless you travel abroad.  When you get into another country and connect, your International Day pass will activate and you’ll have access to your normal domestic calling and data plan.  The cost for both Verizon and AT&T is $10 per day.

This strategy is best for the occasional International traveler or a traveler with an expense account whose company will cover those costs while working abroad.

Strategy #3 – International Calling Plans

The old-school strategy that still exists is using a dedicated international plan.  This is best for the repetitive traveler since many of these plans are add-ons that rebill on a monthly basis.  Some providers offer one-time bill International Options that give you access to minutes and data for a one-time fee.

Strategy #4 – Google Fi

Google’s Fi (formerly Project Fi) is a great plan that charges based on data usage up to a maximum amount.  The maximum amount is based on the number of users on the plan.  Plans start at $60 per month max, but for light data users it could be even more affordable.  Google Fi also prefers any open WiFi to using cellular, enabling users to avoid cellular data usage when WiFi is around.  All of the WiFi usage is for free.

The international portion of Google Fi is also included in the base charges for 170 countries.

Google also recently announced support for Apple iPhone with its Google Fi plans, although some native iPhone features like Visual Voicemail do not work.

Strategy #5 – In-Country SIM

During my last trip, a friend of mine had his phone stolen.  Being a social media coordinator for a major tech company, he needed the ability to have Twitter and things on a phone – so he was able to borrow a phone from a mutual friend (by the way, who travels with a spare phone?  @geeksroom does!).  He was able to pickup a in-country SIM for just a few Euro.  It includes 10GB of data for about €8 and was good for a month – much longer than our trip.  He could have opted for a local number with text and voice service – but he only needed data – so that was also an option.

These are surprisingly affordable and with the introduction of dual SIM phones and/or e-SIM phones, this method may be your best bet if you are looking to retain your normal number but have data from the in-country SIM.   There are kiosks and stores selling SIMs in just about every train station or Metro station of a major city where I have traveled.  You can often find them in the airport, also.

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DatacenterPowerCLIVirtualization

Investigating and setting syslog settings for ESXi with #PowerCLI

by Philip Sellers
written by Philip Sellers

Persistent logs in ESXi are useful in all troubleshooting situations.  Earlier this week, I posted about vRealize Log Insight and as part of the quick-start of that product, it can set remote syslog settings on an ESXi host.  What should you do if you want to set your own settings – to a third party syslog or another product – or set persistent logging to a shared VMFS datastore?  PowerCLI can save your bacon for that.

First, you should know the advanced settings that you need to set and what they do.  In the next section, we cover those advanced settings, which are visible under the Configure tab and Advanced System Settings on any ESXi host in vCenter.  But PowerCLI can help you set these across all your hosts easily.

Syslog Advanced Settings

Syslog.global.logDir  – A location on a datastore where the logs can be saved to.  It uses format of “[datastore] path” for the setting.

Syslog.global.logDirUnique – a boolean option to create a host-specific directory under the logDir defined.  This is useful for sharing the same settings across multiple hosts.

Syslog.global.logHost – a comma separated list of remote servers where the logs are sent by syslog.  The format is protocol and host with port – tcp://hostname:514 or udp://hostname:514.

Checking Existing Settings with PowerCLI

Checking the logDir setting on all the hosts attached to your vCenter:

[code]Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity (Get-VMHost) -Name "Syslog.global.logDir" | Select Entity, Name, Value[/code]

Checking the logDirUnique setting on all the hosts attached to your vCenter:

[code]Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity (Get-VMHost) -Name "Syslog.global.logDirUnique" | Select Entity, Name, Value[/code]

Checking the logHost setting on all the hosts attached to your vCenter:

[code]Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity (Get-VMHost) -Name "Syslog.global.logHost" | Select Entity, Name, Value[/code]

Setting the Advanced Settings with PowerCLI

The Set-AdvancedSetting cmdlet utilizes an AdvancedSetting object to make a change, meaning you have to use Set-AdvancedSetting with Get-AdvancedSetting.  Reuse the first part of your code above in order to get the correct Advanced Setting from the host and then pipe it to Set-AdvancedSetting with your new value.

[code]Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity (Get-VMHost) -Name "Syslog.global.logDir" | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value "[VMFS_Name] /systemlogs[/code]

[code]Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity (Get-VMHost) -Name "Syslog.global.logDirUnique" | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value $True[/code]

[code]Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity (Get-VMHost) -Name "Syslog.global.logHost" | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value "udp://hostname:514"[/code]

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VMware

VMware vCenter users are entitled to free 25 OSI licenses of vRealize Log Insight #FreeVMwareStuff

by Philip Sellers
written by Philip Sellers

Its not news, but I find that a lot of folks still don’t realize that they are entitled to free benefits from VMware, included with their vSphere licenses.  In this #FreeVMwareStuff post, I want to focus on vRealize Log Insight.

Anyone who has entitlement to VMware vCenter also gets 25 OSI licenses for vRealize Log Insight.    This means you can collect logs from your vCenter and 24 more ESXi hosts.  For a lot of users, that may include all of their ESXi host logging to vRealize Log Insight.

NSX users also get their own flavor of Log Insight if you purchased NSX 6.2.4 or better.

What is vRealize Log Insight?

vRealize Log Insight is two things:  1) it is a syslog server and 2) it is a UI and search interface built to help VMware users discover conditions in their vSphere environment.  The major advantage is having the search of a consolidated repository of logs.  Even if you setup logging on each host, this means you have to go host to host to troubleshoot the logs.  Log Insight offers you the advantage of a centralized location for logging.

Because it is centralized, it can also do some basic analysis of the logs and show you how many of a single problem may be occurring and across which hosts.  Users will get access to both the raw logs and to the interpreted logs.

The UI is a big benefit in addition to search capabilities – you have filters and ways to look for exactly what may be occurring in an environment.

Free?

Yes, that’s right – its free – to start anyways.  vCenter Server users get 25 OSI (Operating System Instance) licenses – meaning you can connect up to 25 operating systems to this vRealize Log Insight server.  To move beyond that, additional licensing is needed.

Full licensing also gives you features you want – including clustering and and HA for vRealize Log Insight.

NSX users get vRealize Log Insight for NSX for free for users of 6.2.3 or higher.  There is no additional charge for this product and it is included with your NSX licensing – no restrictions.

Getting Started

There is a great post from Altaro that outlines the steps to deploy and create a vRealize Log Insight appliance and get your vSphere linked to it.  https://www.altaro.com/vmware/vrealize-log-insight-a-first-look-and-how-to-deploy-it/

 

This post first appeared on Techazine.com and was reposted here.  For more great VMware content, check out Phil’s blog at Techazine.com

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DatacenterVirtualization

VMware vCenter users are entitled to free 25 OSI licenses of vRealize Log Insight #FreeVMwareStuff

by Philip Sellers
written by Philip Sellers

Its not news, but I find that a lot of folks still don’t realize that they are entitled to free benefits from VMware, included with their vSphere licenses.  In this #FreeVMwareStuff post, I want to focus on vRealize Log Insight.

Anyone who has entitlement to VMware vCenter also gets 25 OSI licenses for vRealize Log Insight.    This means you can collect logs from your vCenter and 24 more ESXi hosts.  For a lot of users, that may include all of their ESXi host logging to vRealize Log Insight.

NSX users also get their own flavor of Log Insight if you purchased NSX 6.2.4 or better.

What is vRealize Log Insight?

vRealize Log Insight is two things:  1) it is a syslog server and 2) it is a UI and search interface built to help VMware users discover conditions in their vSphere environment.  The major advantage is having the search of a consolidated repository of logs.  Even if you setup logging on each host, this means you have to go host to host to troubleshoot the logs.  Log Insight offers you the advantage of a centralized location for logging.

Because it is centralized, it can also do some basic analysis of the logs and show you how many of a single problem may be occurring and across which hosts.  Users will get access to both the raw logs and to the interpreted logs.

The UI is a big benefit in addition to search capabilities – you have filters and ways to look for exactly what may be occurring in an environment.

Free?

Yes, that’s right – its free – to start anyways.  vCenter Server users get 25 OSI (Operating System Instance) licenses – meaning you can connect up to 25 operating systems to this vRealize Log Insight server.  To move beyond that, additional licensing is needed.

Full licensing also gives you features you want – including clustering and and HA for vRealize Log Insight.

NSX users get vRealize Log Insight for NSX for free for users of 6.2.3 or higher.  There is no additional charge for this product and it is included with your NSX licensing – no restrictions.

Getting Started

There is a great post from Altaro that outlines the steps to deploy and create a vRealize Log Insight appliance and get your vSphere linked to it.  https://www.altaro.com/vmware/vrealize-log-insight-a-first-look-and-how-to-deploy-it/

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Cross vCenter vMotion UI from VMware Flings #FreeVMwareStuff

by Philip Sellers
written by Philip Sellers

File this under – have you seen it?  Cross vCenter vMotion is one of the most useful features that was introduced in recent years.  I say that because a lot of times we have consolidation projects in a company that does a lot of mergers and acquisitions.  We inherit companies that already have vSphere and already have their own vCenter – so how do you handle consolidation?  How do you handle moving VMs live and online during a migration situation?  Cross vCenter vMotion.

Cross vCenter vMotion is simple from PowerCLI.  It is the same Move-VM cmdlet that is used for any other vMotion or Storage vMotion.  The only difference is you have to pass it objects in a second vCenter – which is also not hard, but you just need to know what you’re doing.  And, it can be tough to determine the right port groups and NIC mappings in the process.

A lot of people are not comfortable working from the command line or can’t quite get all the correct parameters to do this using PowerCLI – so the engineers at VMware have released a Fling that lets you have a UI for Cross vCenter vMotion.

Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility

The Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility is the official title of the UI for Cross vCenter vMotion.  It is available for free download at https://labs.vmware.com/flings/cross-vcenter-workload-migration-utility.

The current release lists the following notes about the Fling:

Key Features

  • Completely UI-driven workflow for VM migration
  • Provides REST API for automating migration tasks
  • Works with vCenters in same/different SSO domains
  • Enables batch migration of multiple VMs in parallel
  • Auto-populates inventory for ease of management

Supported Operations

  • Perform live/cold migration as well as relocate/clone operations
  • Works for migration tasks within and across vCenter servers
  • Select host/cluster/folder/resource pool as placement target
  • Supports both storage vMotion and shared datastore migration
  • Flexible configuration for VMs with multiple network interfaces

Its a Fling?

Flings are unsupported tools from VMware Labs that are released into the community as-is.  They are there as a test to see how popular and helpful the tool is and to receive feedback.  Some Flings appear and die.  Some Flings get productized – like the vCenter HTML5 web client and the ESXi HTML5 Host Client.

 

This article first appeared on Techazine.com and was reposted here.  Check out Phil’s other blog for more great VMware content.  

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DatacenterStorageVirtualization

Cross vCenter vMotion UI from VMware Flings #FreeVMwareStuff

by Philip Sellers
written by Philip Sellers

File this under – have you seen it?  Cross vCenter vMotion is one of the most useful features that was introduced in recent years.  I say that because a lot of times we have consolidation projects in a company that does a lot of mergers and acquisitions.  We inherit companies that already have vSphere and already have their own vCenter – so how do you handle consolidation?  How do you handle moving VMs live and online during a migration situation?  Cross vCenter vMotion.

Cross vCenter vMotion is simple from PowerCLI.  It is the same Move-VM cmdlet that is used for any other vMotion or Storage vMotion.  The only difference is you have to pass it objects in a second vCenter – which is also not hard, but you just need to know what you’re doing.  And, it can be tough to determine the right port groups and NIC mappings in the process.

A lot of people are not comfortable working from the command line or can’t quite get all the correct parameters to do this using PowerCLI – so the engineers at VMware have released a Fling that lets you have a UI for Cross vCenter vMotion.

Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility

The Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility is the official title of the UI for Cross vCenter vMotion.  It is available for free download at https://labs.vmware.com/flings/cross-vcenter-workload-migration-utility.

The current release lists the following notes about the Fling:

Key Features

  • Completely UI-driven workflow for VM migration
  • Provides REST API for automating migration tasks
  • Works with vCenters in same/different SSO domains
  • Enables batch migration of multiple VMs in parallel
  • Auto-populates inventory for ease of management

Supported Operations

  • Perform live/cold migration as well as relocate/clone operations
  • Works for migration tasks within and across vCenter servers
  • Select host/cluster/folder/resource pool as placement target
  • Supports both storage vMotion and shared datastore migration
  • Flexible configuration for VMs with multiple network interfaces

How it Works

This particular Fling is a Java based application.  It runs a local web server on your local machine under the default port of 8080.  You can access the UI by going to http://127.0.0.1:8080  or http://localhost:8080.  There is no authentication.

Once it launches, you hit the Migrate button to begin.

The first step is registering your vCenters by toggling to the Register tab.   Once you enter hostnames and credentials, you’ll have at least 2 vCenters registered and available for use in the tool.

Toggle back to the Migrate tab to select the source, target, and all the details for your migration.  The drop downs allow you to define the placement and network mappings between port groups on each vCenter.  Once you have all your selections made, choose Submit and the migration begins.  

You are returned to the home screen which shows the status of the relocation or clone job and you can monitor from here.  Rince and repeate.

Its a Fling?

Flings are unsupported tools from VMware Labs that are released into the community as-is.  They are there as a test to see how popular and helpful the tool is and to receive feedback.  Some Flings appear and die.  Some Flings get productized – like the vCenter HTML5 web client and the ESXi HTML5 Host Client.

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