A while back I wrote an article on checking your disk alignment and even changing the disk alignment from the service console. Since then a lot of people asked me for the exact link, because I don’t have a now.NetApp.com account I wasn’t able to provide it. Today I received an email from the developer, Eric Forgette, with a link [...]

Let’s start with a screenshot: These are the properties of an HA cluster, as you can see there are two sections that changed: “Enable Host Monitoring” is a brand new feature. Anyone who did network maintenance while HA was enabled knows why this feature will come in handy. Those that didn’t: Isolation response! If ESX is unable to send or [...]

Luciano Pavarotti once said, “You don’t need any brains to listen to music”, and he’s right… that’s why I love music. Whenever I need to clear my head I pick up my mp3 player and go outside for run. As you probably already know I’ve got a pretty diverse taste in music and some were really surprised by my previous [...]

VMware released two patches on the 20th of March. Both patches are related to an issue with the Broadcom bnx2x driver. If you are running on hardware with a Broadcom NetXtreme II 57710, 57711, or 57711E NICs be sure to look into the patches below: ESX350-200903412-BG – PATCH – KB 1009232 – General Updates Kernel Source and VMNIX ESX350-200903411-BG – [...]

VMware just announced that there’s a new technology preview coming up, vCenter Mobile Access. For a demo/preview go to the VMTN Blog section: vCenter Mobile Access. Introducing VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA).  vCMA allows you to monitor and manage VMware Infrastructure from your mobile phone with an interface that is optimized for such devices. Specifically, it allows you to: Search [...]

Rob de Veij just uploaded a minor update of RVTools, version 2.4.1. Make sure you download it and replace the 2.4 version I blogged about just three days ago. The new filter throws an exception when there are ESX hosts which do not belong to any cluster. With the help from Mario Vinet this problem is now solved! Thanks again [...]

The next version of ESX has a totally different architecture for storage. The new architecture is called “Pluggable Storage Architecture”. For my own understanding I wanted to write down how this actually works and what all the different abbreviations/acronyms mean: PSA = Pluggable Storage Architecture NMP = Native Multipathing MPP = Multipathing Plugin PSP = Path Selection Plugin SATP = [...]