This question has come up several times over the last couple of weeks so I figured it was time to dedicate an article to it. People have always been used to monitoring memory usage in a specific way. This always worked fine until ESX(i) 3.5 introduced the aggressive usage of Large Pages. In the 3.5 timeframe that only worked for [...]

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 [...]

Customer requested output for all HBA controllers of the ESXi hosts. Because ESXi is used we decided to do generate this output through the vMA appliance. Here is how we did this: * optional * $ ssh vi-admin@vMA.appliance $ vifp addserver ESXi_Host $ vifp listservers output: host1.environment   ESXi host2.environment   ESXi vCenter.environment  vCenter * optional * The above was just [...]

When I was enjoying some family time yesterday Eric Sloof stole my usual RVTools scoop. Nevertheless I believe it is worth publishing this as RVTools is one of the most valuable free non-vendor tools out there. Rob de Veij released a major version of RVTools. There are couple of major improvements in this version and hence the reason it took [...]

This tool doesn’t need an introduction anymore. One of the most valuable free tools I know… RVTools. Rob found some spare time again and managed to update RVTools. It includes some bug fixes and new fields. Just download it and try it out, I am certain it will dig up something that you did not know about! Keep it up [...]

This would be a good way to spent your time: Title: VIX APIs – Managing and Automating Guest OS We will show examples of how the VIX API can be used to develop tools for managing guest environments in VMware products. Included will be a demonstration of proof-of-concept tools that monitor processes and transfer files to multiple guests simultaneously. We [...]