Drawing Network Diagrams For Virtualized Networks.

Hi guys,
I'm looking at drawing up simple network diagrams of the virtualised servers and IP addresses.. To make it easier to remember the IPs of the virtual machines and the hypervisor, which can get confusing at times. Is there any basic starting diagram I could
use to give a simple, clear visual representation of the virtualized network, which I could then use as a template for drawing custom network diagrams for my clients.
nb. I dont have visio, but I have photoshop my plan would be to get an image file and just edit this as required.
thanks,
J

Hi Jonathan,
it's a little bit off topic, but maybe my answer can help you.
I know that problem from my own environment. Recently we started to use VeeamOne (free version with a few limitations) for Monitoring the Workload on our Hosts and VMs.
A nice feature is that you can have an overview of the VMs per Host, including DNS-Name and IP-Address.
Maybe you want to have a look at it.
Best Regards,
Jens
jensit.wordpress.com

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2010-09-03 12:01:51.464/1.401 Oracle Coherence GE 3.5.3/465p7 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Service Cluster joined the cluster with senior service member n/a
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at com.tangosol.net.DefaultCacheServer.start(DefaultCacheServer.java:139)
at com.tangosol.net.DefaultCacheServer.main(DefaultCacheServer.java:60)
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at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.Grid.start(Grid.CDB:38)
at com.tangosol.coherence.component.net.Cluster.onStart(Cluster.CDB:395)
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Is the instance detecting it's own IP via an operating system call, or is there some way I can influence the instance's sense of what IP it is running on?
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I have tried listing the hostname with no better success, because the hostname points to the virtual IP, and therefore has the same effect as listing the virtual IP.
As a workaround, I have altered the WKA list to list of the true IPs of both machines...
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                    <port>8088</port>
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... even though both machines will never be up and running at the same time. This workaround avoids the error and the cluster appears to come up. I am not sure if there's any ill effect that at any given time one of these two IPs will never be up and running.
Despite my workaround, true support for virtual IPs would be superior; listing all the true non-virtual IPs in the WKA list means re-editing the list as the hardware changes.
Thanks for any advice!
P.S. I tried the above with Coherence 3.5.2 with the same results.
Edited by: user11114413 on Sep 3, 2010 11:45 AM

Hi user11114413,
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"Brian O'Donnell" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
Hi,
This posting is meant save time for anyone trying to specify a default
web app
for each of their virtual hosts (as opposed to specifying a default web
app for
each of their wl servers). This applies to weblogic 6.1, on NT. (I haven't
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FIELD-SYMBOLS:
<l_s_chanm> TYPE rrke_s_chanm.
Insert Code
CASE i_s_rkb1d-infocube.
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endmethod. "if_ex_rsr_olap_badi~define
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