I guess most of you have been waiting for this moment… the moment for the three teams to be announced. I can assure you that you will not be disappointed. All of the people on these three have an excellent reputation and are eager to have their shot at the title of all titles. Who will take back that championship [...]

On twitter today Duco asked a question if it was possible to suppress the local/remote shell warning. I knew it was possible so I dug it up. This is the warning Duco is referring to for those who are not familiar with it: “SSH for the host has been enabled”. I guess the “exclamation” mark on your host kind of [...]

Many of us have been logging in to the ESX console for ages and have (ab)used the esxcfg-* commands on a regular basis. We’ve used them in scripts and during troubleshooting and all of that is about to change… vSphere 5.0 introduces a new command line utility: esxcli. Some of you will say “Hey esxcli was already available before 5.0″, [...]

One of the upcoming blogs which I really enjoy reading is Arent Consulting by Tom Arentsen. I know Tom for a while as I have been involved with some of his projects and he really knows what he is talking about and is a nice guy. I just noticed his series of articles on the PXE Manager fling and felt [...]

I am working on a whitepaper about vCenter Server migrations and stumbled upon this great tool which is hidden away on the vCenter install media called “datamigration”. The data migration tool allows you to backup a vCenter Server configuration which is hosted by the MS SQL Express databases that is packaged with vCenter. Now this might seem like a limited [...]

There has been a lot of discussion in the past around Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding and what the value should be and how it relates to the Queue Depth. Jason Boche wrote a whole article about when Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding (DSNRO) is used and when not and I guess I would explain it as follows: When two or more virtual machines are issuing I/Os to [...]

A couple of days ago one of my colleagues released an article about Ephemeral Ports. The article explains about how Ephemeral ports could be used as a “backup” when vCenter is down. The summary of the article is in my opinion the paragraph I quoted below. If the inability to quickly provision a new VM or to reconnect a vNIC [...]