This is just a reminder. The ESXi scripting contest is still running.  Make sure you enter the competition. So far not many people have so chances of winning are pretty big! VMware challenges you to build the best, most creative ESXi management scripts possible. The goal of the ScriptoMania contest is to help our wider community adopt ESXi by providing [...]

At a customer site we received several notifications of performance issues with a VMware VI3 environment. After having checked the configuration of the VMs and the Hosts we decided to dive into esxtop. At first sight we did not see any abnormalities. Low %RDY, which is usually the first thing I check, some swapping but not enough to cause any [...]