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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I’ve read a whole lot of articles about why MS was going to beat VMware and the other way around. I guess the only thing we can do is wait and see what happens. Of all the articles I’ve read there’s one that hit the nail right on the head.

Microsoft Patch 955020
This patch will ensure [...]

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Just noticed that Eric Siebert created a new, one of his famous, top 10 lists which deals about blogs this time “Top 10 blogs that VMware administrators must read”. A whole bunch of my favorite blogs are on there like Mike Laverick’s, Scott Lowe’s and Eric Sloof’s blog…. and I’m also on there!
I’ve only been [...]

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They’ve just released a brand new version of WinSCP which contain the following bug fixes:

For internal directory listings with FTP protocol LIST is used unless LIST -a was already proven to work. 263
Bug fix: .. directory become visible eventually in Explorer interface. 259
Bug fix: Open session in new window was not working for stored sessions [...]

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I was just searching for a way to clone my laptop just in case disaster strikes. I found a cool tool called Clonezilla. It’s free, open source and very easy to use. You can burn a “live cd” or even copy the tool to a USB memory stick and just boot from it.
It supports a [...]

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Enter maintenance mode from the ESX command line:
vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter
Backup every running vm via vcb in just one command:
for /f “tokens=2 delims=:” %%i in (’vcbvmname -h <virtualcenterserver> -u <user> -p <password> -s Powerstate:on ^| find “name:”‘) do cscript pre-command.wsf “c:\program files\vmware\vmware consolidated backup framework\” %%i fullvm
Enable VMotion from the command line:
vimsh -n -e “hostsvc/vmotion/vnic_set [...]

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