I recently came across a problem whereby a Rescan SAN was taking an absolute age, like 15 minutes from the VI Client. Now I love the VI Client, but sometimes it just doesn’t give you enough information when it is doing things. To be fair most of the time the verbose information is [...]
I don’t know if you are like me and feel initially a little bit nervous about messages that contain phrases like “there may be some interruption to I/O”.
A customer recently asked me how to increase the boot disk size of a Windows VM to increase the space available to WSUS.
I recommended using the WSUSutil command to move the data to a different drive rather than extend a boot drive.
Extending drives in ESX is very straightforward and it will work on a boot [...]
The Fantastic ESX Manager tool published by ESXGuide has been updated to version 2.3.
I know what it’s like trying to make sure that my customer’s network admin guys happy when implementing Virtual Infrastructure.
Cisco & VMware have collaborated on a fantastic document that really gives some great pointers covering:
vLAN Tagging
NIC Teaming
vSwitch Scalability
Layer 2 Security Features
Used in conjunction with the Virtual Networking Concepts document it makes for compelling reading for [...]
A few times over the years VMDK files have been ‘lost’ when a customer has had to shutown their storage in a less than graceful fashion.
In every case so far, touch wood, it is only the desciptor files that have been deleted so the raw data is still present in the *-flat.vmdk file.
It is actually [...]
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