Even if you haven’t heard about BusyBox, you may have used it. It runs in every ESXi, which doesn’t have a full OS as console like classic ESX. Still, you need an easy way to interact the hypervisor directly. So the ESXi includes a tiny console that uses BusyBox (reduced version) due to its small size.
The BusyBox has been ported to Windows as well. You can download the 600+K executable here. It’s really a simple exe file and you can place it anywhere. Read more... (217 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)
DSL is an overloaded acronym standing for many different things. I first knew it as Digital Subscriber Line for Internet connection, and then Domain Specific Language. Recently I learnt a new one: Damn Small Linux. As you see the word small, you may think it’s for embedded system. It’s not. Read more... (463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)
My former colleague Emad Benjamin at VMware has just published a new book on running Java on vSphere. When I was still there, I had the opportunity to review the Chapter 5 of his book.
As many of you know, Emad is a well-known expert on this subject who has spoken at various events like VMworld and helped numerous customers. You can buy his book at Amazon or from publisher directly. Remember to bring it to next year’s VMworld for his autograph.:-) Read more... (435 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)
After leaving VMware and taking a short break at home last week, I am excited to be part of VCE solution engineering team as an architect at its Santa Clara office. For those who are not familiar VCE, it’s a joint venture of EMC, Cisco, VMware and Intel. My formal title is consultant software engineer which, according to my recruiter, is the top engineer rank in the company. Read more... (409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)
Today is my last day at VMware.
Looking back, it’s been almost four and half years since I joined VMware in June 2007. At that time, VMware was still part of EMC, and two months later it went IPO (to be exact, spin off). Together with many of my colleagues I watched the historical moment for the company on a very early summer morning. I still remember there were quite a few sleeping tents inside the new offices. Read more... (457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)
Today is day two of VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. VMware CTO Steve Herrod got on stage with his technology deep dives into various products and new projects around the cloud story – “your cloud, own it.” Again this is based on my note and memory, and has not reviewed by anyone. Mistakes are all mine. Read more... (574 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)
Today is day one of VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. The most important part is of course the keynotes by CEO Paul Maritz and Co-President Carl Eschenbach. The following is based on my personal note and has not reviewed by anyone. All the mistakes and errors are mine and only mine. Read more... (661 words, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)
Yesterday I blogged about the least used API in VMware vSphere. This naturally leads to another question, “what is the most used API in vSphere?” It’s a harder question than the “least” one, because for the latter I can be very sure that zero is the lowest possible usage. If that API is not the least, it must be one of the least.
Before we try to figure out the answer, let’s clarify a bit the “most used.” Does it mean the one that is called the most times? Does it mean the one that is touched and used by most developers? Read more... (464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)
Last week I was extremely busy working on the VI(vSphere) Java API 3.0 (codename: Crescendo) whose main theme to support the next release of vSphere. To my surprise, I caught on an API that should have been included in vSphere Java API 2.1 but somehow omitted. Even surprised to me is that no one has reported to me via our sourceforge.net tracker.
I think the conclusion can only be one – Read more... (216 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)
After my last post Tagging: An invisible feature in vSphere, William Lam quickly followed up with another post in his blog, arguing vSphere Tagging Feature Not So Invisible. He made his case by showing how you can actually add and remove tags using addTag() and removeTag() method via vSphere MOB. You can definitely play with your test environment, but please do not mess up with any existing tags in your production environment.
Although you can do that via MOB, it’s not the officially supported way (BTW, this should not be taken as show stopper. After all, Read more... (377 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)
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