Today Rob de Veij released an update of his excellent tool called RVTools. We are up to version 3.2 already. You can find the update on the RVTools website. RVTools is an essential tool for every vSphere Admin. It allows you to report on the most important aspects of your virtual infrastructure, but probably the most important ones are limits [...]

The first patch for ESXi has been released so I figured this was a great time to create and article around how to patch your Image Profile with a new update. The process is fairly straight forward as in this case you will need to create a new image-profile (described here) and link it to a new rule (New-DeployRule and [...]

I was just playing around with Stateless again, aka auto-deploy, and I was wondering how far I could strip the image down to the bare minimum and what the difference would be. I loaded the standard software depot and cloned an existing image profile to a new image profile, for more details on how to do this check the post [...]

I just read Eric’s article about all the topics he covered around vSphere 5 over the last couple of weeks and as I just published the last article I had prepared I figured it would make sense to post something similar. (Great job by  the way Eric, I always enjoy reading your articles and watching your videos!) Although I did [...]

I received a question last week about higher latency thresholds for vMotion… A rumor was floating around that vMotion would support RTT latency up to 10 miliseconds instead of 5. (RTT=Round Trip Time) Well this is partially true. With vSphere 5.0 Enterprise Plus this is true. With any of the versions below Enterprise Plus the supported limit is 5 miliseconds [...]

When I was playing with ESXi 5.0 in my lab I noticed some changes during the installation process. Of course I had not bothered to read the documentation but when I watched the installer fail I figured it might make sense to start reading. I’ve documented the scripted installation procedure multiple times by now. But in short, when you would [...]

As part of my new role within VMware Technical Marketing I am responsible for creating collateral. Most of you have seen the series of articles about the operational differences between ESX and ESXi. After finalizing the series I transformed them into a whitepaper. I guess one thing that stood out for me while going through that process is that writing [...]