Scott Drummonds of vPivot.com posted on ESXPlot, a great tool that is far more efficient and less aggravating than Perfmon for working with ESXTOP output files.
Geoff White has created a badly needed tool here, Perfmon worked but was very time consuming. Especially with those days or weeks of ESXTOP statistic files.
Extract and use the README. For Windows, extract all [...]
VIOPS has a good document on how to cluster the vCenter services on MSCS. Things have changed slightly from 2.5 and though most of the steps will be old news for some, there are a couple changes so be sure to review before proceeding with your Install/Upgrade projects. It does have a nice section on [...]
More »There seems to be a lot of confusion about vMotion and bus-shared VMDKs. For the record, and from VMware, it is not recommended nor supported to vMotion your VM between ESX Hosts when using either Virtual or Physical mode bus-sharing.
Please see the KB here.
I know there are plenty that will disagree and have found ways [...]
VMware has released a draft of the vSphere Hardening Guide, and are encouraging feedback from the community. It is broken into multiple pieces.
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Virtual Machines
Part 3: Host
Part 4: vNetwork
Part 5: vCenter
Part 6: COS
VMware has released a KB with a handy vmfstools command to check your VM’s disk status. If the VMFS output shows a “Z” it is Zerothick with blocks that have not been written to yet.
Read the article here.
This allows you to check the disk status for options such as Fault Tolerance or Microsoft Cluster Services. [...]
Even during an economic slowdown there are bright spots and opportunities. Scott Lowe from Blog.ScottLowe.org is taking a new position with EMC as a VMware-Cisco Solutions Principal. Congratulations to Scott!
Scott has pledged to continue his already top-notch blogging, continuing in line with his new boss and another great blogger Chad Sakac.
Read Scott’s post on his [...]
VMware just posted an alert on this for ESXi 4 Hosts managed by either vCenter 4 or 4 Update 1. If you remove and re-add the Host to vCenter, or upgrade vCenter to Update 1 you may experience this issue.
At this time, there is no official fix, however it appears a reboot should fix the [...]
If you are looking to update your ESX4 hosts to Update 01, don’t look in Update Manager. VMware has removed the update because of a bug with the HP Management Agents preventing the update from completely successfully and rendering the host inoperable.
From KB1016070:
“Note: If you want to install the update, you must download the update manually. [...]
