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 the next couple weeks, [...]

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 ever [...]

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 ESX 3.5 U3 this [...]

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 isn’t because it’s just a [...]

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 this [...]