Normally I would give you guys a nice overview of the patches + KB articles but I’m on a holiday this week with limited access to wifi. Because I’m typing this on my blackberry this post will lack the details, feel a bit like Rev. Run , but you guys know the drill anyway. In total 11 new patches (9 [...]

I just received the following email: Duncan, I just wanted to let you know that you have passed the VI3 Design exam, the third of five parts of the VCDX certification program. Next steps are the submission of applications and then the defense. Scoring our exams took a long time because we were in the alpha group. But I passed… [...]

I just received an email about an excellent article on VI:OPS. The article is titled “Automating Network Setting Changes and DNS Updates on Recovery Site Using VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager“. It includes a PDF file which contains a description for configuring automatic IP-Changes but also includes batch files for DNS updates. When performing site failover, IT administrators are often [...]

A quick intro: my name is Ian Gibbs, and I’m a former VMware PS Consultant like Duncan currently is. I’ve just transitioned to a role with a VMware customer where I’m responsible for delivering VMware View for real to 3000 users. Duncan has kindly invited me to share the things I learn with the world. I hope to post some [...]

I was just reading a discussion on the VMTN community on CPU affinity. The general opinion of the Experts is “Don’t use CPU affinity”. I fully agree with them, ESX is more than capable to handle the scheduling on it’s own with just a limited overhead. And like Ken Cline also stresses it could harm performance because of NUMA load [...]

Just noticed three SRAs were updated. Might be worth checking out: EMC Symmetrix Storage Replication Adapter Version 2.0.0.21 | Released 04/20/2009 Fixed : SRDF Adapter for VMWARE Site Recovery Manager (SRM) times out while trying to enumerate LUNs from a local Symmetrix array. LSI Storage Replication Adapter Version 1.00.30.12| Released 04/01/2009 Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter 2 Version 1.0.8| Released 03/24/2009 [...]

I just noticed this awesome work by LucD. He developed two scripts which can import and export DRS affinity rules. Especially in large environments or environments that have multiple affinity rules this is an excellent solution. Take a look at the link above for more details. Luc posted the script half way down the topic in text but also added [...]