I was checking Amazon during the weekend, just like I do everyday, to see if we had new reviews and how the book was selling until I noticed the reviews on the PowerCLI book. The reviews were mainly about the fact that there’s a formatting issue with the ebook which I agree with should be fixed by the publisher but [...]

Rob just released a brand new version of RVTools. So what’s new? Version 3.1 (April, 2011) Logon form tab order rearranged Logon form will remember your last selected host / vCenter server On vInfo new fields Provisioned, Used and shared storage On vInfo new fields install Boot Required, number of Virtual Disks On vInfo new fields Fault Tolerance State,  FT [...]

Last week I noticed that one of the articles that I wrote in 2008 is still very popular. This article explains the various possible combinations of the advanced settings “EnableResignature” and “DisallowSnapshotLUN”. For those who don’t know what these options do in a VI3 environment; they allow you to access a volume which is marked as “unresolved” due to the [...]

I was lurking around the Kindle website to figure out how to enable “Public Notes” as I would love to read comments on our book and figure out how we can improve the content. Some of the things that we wrote make a lot of sense to us but might not make a lot of sense to you. I encourage [...]

We had a discussion internally about ESX/ESXi caching I/Os. In particular this discussion was around caching of writes  as a customer was concerned about consistency of their data. I fully understand that they are concerned and I know in the past some vendors were doing write caching however VMware does not do this for obvious reasons. Although performance is important [...]

No it isn’t a late April Fools’ joke… And we never expected this to actually happen to be honest. Last week I had discussion about the ebook on twitter and people were convinced that ebooks are the way to go. I won’t deny that and I know Frank agrees with me on this as well but the fact of the [...]

I had a discussion on the VMTN forums about this last week and the question basically was, what should my das.failuredetection time be set to when the isolation response is set to “Shut down”. Lets first explain what the das.failuredetectiontime is, I described it on our book as follows: Failure Detection Time is basically the time it takes before the [...]