I just noticed that VMware also updated the Remote CLI, which was heavily criticized when it first came out because of the lack of commands. Now it contains almost every single command out there. And there’s a great PDF file about all the commands and the options.
I guess the Remote CLI matured, I was wondering [...]

If you just upgraded to 3.5 Update 2 and updated VMware tools and want to use VSS for snapshotting than you will have to enable this manually for each VM:

In the VMware Tools installer, select Modify > Drivers > VSS.
Complete the installation process.
Restart the virtual machine to make sure VSS components are installed and running.

Am I the first one to notice this? VMware just released Update 2 for ESX(i) 3.5 and a whole bunch of new patches!
So what’s new?

Windows Server 2008 support – Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions) is supported as a guest operating system. With VMware’s memory overcommit technology and the reliability of ESX, [...]

Today there was a cool article released on the Storage Nuts & Bolts blog. It’s about file level recovery from within a VMDK based on an NFS datastore. NFS is just mentioned cause this is the preferred way to go for the NetApp family, but it doesn’t matter NFS or VMFS the solution they came [...]

I just came across the following on the VMTN forum which is a very useful command in my opinion. When metadata changes for a LUN, that LUN is being locked by a host. Sometime the lock isn’t released, which can cause weird situations. In this case you would want to know which host is locking [...]

VMware’s CEO Paul Maritz just announced that in the near future ESXi will be available for free, that’s right you can just download it. Support is optional and sold separately. ESXi will become available for free over the next couple of weeks.
Why is VMware doing this? Well I think because competition is growing and the [...]

I’ve seen a lot of people picking up on the queuedepth settings lately, especially when there are QLogic adapters involved. Although it can be really beneficial to set the queuedepth to 64 it’s totally useless when one forgets about the “Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding” setting. This setting always has to be aligned with the queuedepth because if the [...]

I’ve seen this happen a lot, you’ve got multiple vendor nics in your ESX hosts and for some reason the numbering is all screwed up. So the onboard nics are vmnic0 and vmnic2 the pci nics are vmnic1 and vmnic3, this can be really confusing, and even more confusing when the renumbering is inconsistent. Instead [...]