Every once in a while you would want to stress a VM or multiple VMs to test the working of for instance VMware DRS. There are multiple tools available but most of them only focus on CPU and are usually not multithreaded. My colleague Andres Mitchell developed a cool tool which will load a multithreaded CPU load and will generate [...]

I receive a lot of hits on an old article regarding aligning your VMDKs. This article doesn’t actually explain why it is important but only how to do it. The how is not actually as important in my opinion. I do however want to take the opportunity to list some of the options you have today to align your VMs VMDKs. [...]

Somehow I missed out on this excellent script/blog about diagramming your vmdk’s and associated snapshot trees for the Planet V12n Top 5 post I do for the VMTN Blog weekly. Luc Dekens is one of the leading PowerCLI script gurus and created this amazing script that creates a diagram of the relationship between VMs, VMDKs and Snapshots. Now you might [...]

I was working on a vShield Zones setup a couple of days ago. I have been a couple of times already but somehow the following details seem to slip every time and I find myself digging it up in the manual, hence the reason for this article. A reminder to myself: vShield Manager login(page 24): admin/default Configure IP Address with [...]

I was working on an automated build procedure yesterday of ESX hosts in a cloud environment. I stored my my temporary post configuration script in /tmp/ as I have been doing since 3.0.x. When the installation was finished the host rebooted and I waited on the second reboot to occur, which is part of my post configuration. Weird thing is it [...]