Comments on: Most awesome ESX script known to mankind ever

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:24:28 +0000

Nice write up! These patches are very good news.
Thanks for letting us know.

By: Ruben Miguelez Garcia

Ruben Miguelez Garcia — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:06:15 +0000

Don’t miss these patches.

http://vmutils.blogspot.com/2010/07/possibly-end-of-snapshots-story.html

They introduce a great improvement that changes drastically the snapshots troubleshooting and the most important, prevent the problem.

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:17:53 +0000

Fantastic, thanks!

By: Ruben Miguelez Garcia

Ruben Miguelez Garcia — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:56:33 +0000

SnapVMX now works on ESXi too.
See the documentation for instructions.

By: Ruben Miguelez Garcia

Ruben Miguelez Garcia — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:11:26 +0000

File:
http://geosub.es/vmutils/SnapVMX.Documentation/SnapVMX.source.code.txt

Command to retrieve and load it:
# wget http://geosub.es/vmutils/SnapVMX.Documentation/SnapVMX.source.code.txt && source SnapVMX.source.code.txt

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:01:25 +0000

Thanks Ruben, that’s great. Do you have a URL for the downloadable file as I couldn’t spot it?

By: Ruben Miguelez Garcia

Ruben Miguelez Garcia — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:03:36 +0000

I have included the downloadable file as requested and some other stuff.

I’m always willing to improve the pages, so feel free to ask.

Regards.

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:42:37 +0000

Thanks for letting us know, I’ve had a quick look at some of the changes and it looks great.
If I might be so bold, a suggestion for your site would be to have the script as a separate downloadable sh file. A couple of readers noticed that the formatting kept getting messed up when they copy/pasted from their browser.
P.S. I love the animated gif.

By: Ruben Miguelez Garcia

Ruben Miguelez Garcia — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:23:32 +0000

Hi Forbes,

I’m glad that you liked the guide and the script.

A few days ago I reviewed, updated and expanded the troubleshooting guide.

Additions:
- Full procedure explanation with examples of how to commit manually to the Base Disk
- References to ESXi 3.5/4.0 and ESX 4.0 with differences and commands.
- List of weird issues (knowledge gained from experience)
- Small animation explaining the ‘delete all’ process.
- More links to patches.
- Recommendations to prevent issues.
- More pictures for “clone VM” stressing the possibility of putting the disks on different Datastores.
- Reviewed flowchart to make it a bit simpler.
- vmkfstools -q tricks.

Ah! Thanks for the compliment.

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:39:52 +0000

Hi Pablo,
I’d love to take the credit, but I’m just the messenger. All credit should really go to Ruben Garcia who created the script. Also, the script needs a python runtime environment. It might work with the vMA, but I know if anyone has tested it with ESXi hosts.
Anyway, all props to Ruben.