William Lam just released version 4 of his Health Check Report. I guess I can talk about it for hours but the sample report that William provides says more in just a few clicks than I can in 1000 words. Below you can find an outtake from the release notes. I clipped it as it was too long, but you [...]
I was just reading Scott Drummonds article on Memory Compression. Scott explains where Memory Compression comes in to play. I guess the part I want to reply on is the following: VMware’s long-term prioritization for managing the most aggressively over-committed memory looks like this: Do not swap if possible. We will continue to leverage transparent page sharing and ballooning to [...]
VMware just released VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.0 Update 1 Patch 1. This patch resolves the following issues : After upgrading Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM to the latest version, you might not be able to patch the kernel of ESX hosts attached to the vDS (KB 1015717)Upgrading Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM to the latest version upgrades the Cisco Virtual Ethernet [...]
Rob de Veij has just released a new version of RVTools. The update only contains bug fixes but most definitely worth downloading again! Version 2.8.1 (February 2010) On vHost tab new field: number of running vCPUs On vSphere VMs in vApp where not displayed. Filter not working correct when annotations or custum fields contains null value. When NTP server(s) = [...]
I’ve been conducting VCDX Defense Interviews for a while now. Last week in Las Vegas during PEX something struck me and I guess this post by Frank Denneman is a good example… On a regular basis I come across NFS based environments where the decision is made to store the virtual machine swap files on local VMFS datastores. Using host-local [...]
I attended VMware Partner Exchange this week in Las Vegas. I must say I was impressed. To be completely blunt; I wasn’t impressed with Vegas. Vegas is definitely not my cup of tea. I love a bit of “history” and Vegas hardly has any. Give me San Francisco, New York, Boston or any other city anytime! I do however was [...]
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the vSphere Security Hardening Guide. Just a couple of days later William “the king of Perl” Lam already produced a script that checks the Hardening Guide best practices against your environment. It produces a great html based report. Source While going through the COS/HOST and VM documentation, I noticed there were quite [...]
