Friday, March 19, 2010

Exception of type vmomi.fault.nopermission was thrown

I was setting up a user with permission to migrate a VM in VirtualCenter. I created a custom role and thought I had all the permissions set correctly, but the user kept getting a 'vmomi.fault.nopermission' exception message at the screen to select the destination datastore. Solved it by creating a custom role with the following privileges:

Virtual Machine - Inventory - Move
Resource - Assign Virtual Machine To Resource Pool
Resource -Migrate
Resource - Relocate

Assigned that role to the necessary Group on the applicable clusters
Assigned the Read Only role to the same Group at the Datacente level

It might help someone else!
B

(Also posted here)

Monday, March 15, 2010

Azure in a box?

On reading some articles, you might have thought that Microsoft would never release Azure "in a box". However, Steve Ballmer seems to be coming around to the idea:

"...it will be many years before many government organizations will grow comfortable with the notion of their data or citizen data living outside of the jurisdiction ... [for example] this company is not likely to build part of our public cloud in Slovenian [sic] anytime soon. So, somebody should be able to implement a Windows Azure cloud in that country."
Source - Steve Ballmer: Cloud Computing

Worth watching.

The Big Switch...

(...the book on cloud computing- not the Bord Gáis campaign that runs in the cloud.)

I've finished reading The Big Switch. It's an interesting read. Carr doesn't get bogged down in the detail but rather provides the reader with a bird's eye view of the topic. This gives the book a pacy feel - so much so in fact that by the time you've finished the book, you might think the world has moved on and your competitors are already running their entire business in the cloud!

There's no doubt that cloud computing is having an impact and is here to stay, but there are a number of issues which are still being ironed out. Carr uses the ubiquitous analogy of electricity companies in his book. However, while you can plug an electric lamp into any socket in your home and buy your electricity from any one of a number of providers, you can't quite do the same with your IT application or infrastructure - yet.

Yes, there are barriers to be overcome e.g. data protection, technical limitations etc., but they will be overcome. (Microsoft are even alluding to Azure in a box to overcome some of the data protection issues.) Then you'll be able to move your infrastructure and/or application at the push of a button.

If you're not already thinking about cloud computing and what it means for your business - time to start.