I was re-reading the KB article on how to improve HA scaling. Apparently pre vCenter 2.5 U5 there was a problem when the amount of VMs that needs to fail-over exceeds 35. Keep in mind that it’s a soft limit, you can run more than 35 VMs on a single host in a HA cluster if you want to though. [...]
Alan Renouf is definitely on of the most active bloggers when we are talking about Powershell/PowerCLI. His posts are always educational and of a high quality. I love the one-liners but nothing, absolutely nothing, beats this awesome Daily Report script that Alan has just published. I’m not going to repost his full article because I think all of you should [...]
According to page 15 of the the vSphere compatibility matrix guide VMware vCenter Update Manager isn’t supported on Windows 2008 32 and 64 bit. I just received an email from one of my colleagues stating that this is incorrect. The document will be updated soon but for now take my word on it VUM is supported on Windows 2008 32 [...]
This week both NetApp and EMC released updated versions of documents I highly recommend to everyone interested in virtualization! Now some might think why would I want to read a NetApp document when we are an EMC shop.! Or why would I want to read an EMC document when my environment is hosted on a NetApp FAS3050. The answer is [...]
For those running vMA (previously known as VIMA) patch 01 has just been released. You can find all the details in this KB article. Updating the appliance when the proxy has been set up can be done on the command line by typing the following command: sudo vima-update update
A couple of days ago I posted about Update Manager wanting to install updates regarding the Nexus while I did not have the Nexus installed. I’ve rebuild my entire test environment with the latest(GA) build and noticed that I’m not experiencing these issues anymore. Now I’ve either had an outdated version of VUM, a screwed up database or I was [...]
A whole new set of products have been released today. Besides Lab Manager 4.0 VMware also released Chargeback 1.0 and Appspeed 1.0. Cloud talk is hot these days, if we are talking about tools which enable cloud computing we are most definitely talking about these “new” products. Take a look at the Lab Manager page and notice that “lab manager” [...]
