Just noticed this pingback. The topic title “Balancing LUN paths on your ESX hosts with powershell” sounded promising so I headed over. Justin Emerson is the owner of the blog and he wrote a short but effective script that changes the active paths on your active/active SAN(FIXED). After watching this video that was posted by the VI Toolkit team, I [...]

I was working on an ESXTOP post when Jason Boche published his blog post “ESXTOP Drilldown“. My post was similar so I decided to dump the post and start over again within a few weeks or so. Yesterday I encountered a performance issue at a customer site. One thing I’ve learned over the last couple of years is that “ESXTOP” [...]

Recently a customer asked me if HP Flex-10 was fully supported for ESX(i) or not. For those that don’t know what Flex-10 is: HP’s new Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet module is the industry’s first interconnect that flexibly allocates the bandwidth of a 10 Gb Ethernet network port across four NIC connections. This eliminates the need for additional costly NICs, switches [...]

Mike D was the first one that actually wrote a powershell quick migration script that exactly does the same as Microsofts Quick Migration. (Suspend on host 1, Resume on host 2.) Yesterday William Lam emailed me about a script that he created that actually does the same as Mike D’s script. But, William’s script was specifically designed for ESXi and [...]

I’ve just created a new Page. This page will also deal about VMware HA. I threw all my “deepdive” posts into one page which makes it easier to find for you guys and search engines. But most important, easier to maintain. When I’ve got more technical in-depth information I will add it to the page. Check it out and let [...]

I was just reading an excellent weekly technical digest by VMware’s Michael White and noticed the mention of a KB article on SRM. This KB article has the following describtion: With VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1, recovery of a VM might take a long time.  The recovery time during a test or real recovery will be longer when [...]

Forbes just released version 1.3 of his VMReference Card.This card can be very useful for those studying for VCP/VCDX. But it might also come in handy when doing troubleshooting on the Service Console: I’ve just finished updating my reference card.  The biggest change is that I’ve moved everything to the latest update of 3.5 as the default. Updated the details [...]