I bet you wouldn’t mind winning any of the following: 10 x Iomega SSD 10 x Iomega IX2 Cloud Edition 2 x iPad gen 1 5 x iPad gen 2 1 x VNXe 3300 with 10GbE/1GbE and 15 x 600GB 10K RPM spindles (!!) Yes you did read that correctly a VNXe with 15 x 600GB disk… It is crazy [...]

I was playing around with vShield App and I locked out my vCenter VM which happened to be hosted on the cluster which was protected by vShield App. Yes I know that it is not recommended, but I have a limited amount of compute resources in my lab and I can’t spare a full server just for vCenter so I [...]

Today I was working on a couple of test scenarios in a remote lab. For some reason the latency was a lot higher than normal and I was very difficult to type anything in the Remote Console through the vCenter Client. Every single character I tried popped up 2 or 3 times… which makes it very difficult to type a [...]

I had the question today what happens to a powered off VM when the host they are registered against fails? This customer always has multiple powered off VMs and was afraid their VMs would show up as orphaned. I was pretty confident that the VM would be re-registered against one of the remaining hosts in the cluster, but I validated [...]

I started diving in to vShield App and one thing that I like about vShield App is that it allows you to use different types of objects to apply your policies to. Never really put too much thought in to it, but considering the world is more and more changing to policy based management this fits right in. I just [...]

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 [...]

I had this post sitting in my “Draft” box for a week and didn’t notice it never got published. Although a bit late here it is. At VMworld Copenhagen I tried to spot a whole bunch of rockstar Bloggers / Tweeps. I tweeted their pics during the show but I figured not everyone of you is online all of the [...]