When I published my article on tools/scripts I use during a VMware Healthcheck I received a couple of emails on Tripwire’s Configcheck. I’ve been on a holiday for a couple of weeks so it took me a bit longer than usual to check out the product. Configcheck can be downloaded for free. Configcheck is a Java Application so you will [...]

I’ve wrote about this tool several times so most of you must have tested it by now and are probably actively using it: RVTools. Rob just notified me that he uploaded a brand new version of his tool. The following have been added to version 2.2: New vDatastore tab. The “vDatastore” tab displays for each datastore the name, connectivity status, [...]

I was just reading the Press Release on the “Preliminary Fourth-Quarter Financial Results” over on EMC’s website and noticed the following: The restructuring program will reduce EMC’s global Information Infrastructure workforce by approximately 2,400 positions, or about 7% of its headcount as of September 30, 2008. Don’t know if anyone had already noticed it or not. But it seems like [...]

Hugo posted a great script. It will compare configuration items between a given set of hosts. This can especially come in handy when you’ve got a huge amount of datastores, portgroups or a huge amount of ESX hosts for that matter. Hugo’s post contains a set of excellent examples. Just check his post for more details and the script, heres [...]

Ivo Beerens just published a new version of his Powershell Healthcheck script. The script will report the following in a nicely formatted html file: VMware ESX server Hardware and version VMware vCenter version Cluster information VMware statistics Active Snapshots CDROMs connected to VMs Floppy drives connected to VMs Datastores Information such as free space RDM information VM information such as [...]

I often get the question where I get my information from. Besides the wealth of information found on the PlanetV12n blogs and the VMware documentation there’s another great source: VMworld. Some go to VMworld just for “networking”, but besides expanding your network you can gather a lot of knowledge during your stay. Not only during your stay, because your vmworld.com [...]

So you were used to labelling your hardware with the name of the System running on it. But when running everything virtual you can label your ESX hosts but never know which VM resides at which Server without checking your console and/or vCenter. Wouldn’t it be cool if you would have a magic Label that updated itself every once in [...]