Just brought my car, my phone and laptop back to Ictivity. Shook everyone’s hands and thanked them for a great year. This feels weird, I’m excited to start at VMware tomorrow but also know for sure that I will miss the great conversations I had  with certain colleagues(thanks guys, you know who you are!).
Anyway, over [...]

Because I will be posting less in the upcoming weeks about problems I face at customer sites I will try to post some cool command-line tip or trick I discovered or picked up somewhere….
open ESX console ,via putty and type the following
vm-support -x
result: all the VMID’s also known as World ID’s,
And if you’re colleagues hardly [...]

I had some spare time on my hands so I decided to add some useful stuff to the VM Reporting powershell script that was posted on this blog. This is what I ended up with, there’s still room for improvement like snapshot information and scsi controller info…

Get-VIServer -Server 192.168.1.1 -User admin -Password admin
$Report = @()
get-vm [...]

A while back I wrote a scripted install aka “cfg” file, and I just noticed I never published it. Check it out, it might be useful in one way or another. It also available for download here!
Especially changing the amount of active nics in a team can be useful(I’ve commented this out again, as of [...]

My colleague Rene Jorissen is blogging daily about the Cisco Live convention and the sessions he visits. Check out his blog if your interested in this convention and his findings or any other networking related articles!

The common mis perception of the term “snapshot”, related to VMware, can cause huge problems. I’ve spend a lot of time the last years solving snapshot problems. For once and for all, a snapshot isn’t a static situation like a clone is. A snapshot can best be compared to a redo log, although technically it [...]

Over the last couple of months I gathered the following tweaks for a better performance insight the virtual machine, besides disabling / uninstalling useless services and devices:

Disable the pre-logon screensaver:
Open Regedit
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Change the value of “ScreenSaveActive” to 0.
Disable updates of the last access time attribute for your NTFS filesystem, especially for i/o intensive vm’s [...]

Update your bookmarks, EMC’s Chad Sakac recently started blogging and already wrote some cool article. Check out his blog and add it to your RSS reader and/or bookmarks.
A couple of outtakes:
I’ve been working with 10 joint VMware/EMC customers this week in NY, NJ and Houston (phew!), and was in Australia the week before last where [...]