Last week a customer asked me a question about how to respond to for instance a partial failure in their SAN environment. A while back I had a similar question from one of my other customers so I more or less knew where to look, and I actually already blogged about this over a year ago when I was showing [...]

Eric Sloof(1, 2, 3) already explored the new “alarms and actions” capabilities. There’s one that really stands out in my opinion in the next release of ESX/vCenter(vSphere): Indeed, “Enter maintenance mode“. Now you might wonder when you would want to use this. Wouldn’t it be nice that when your hardware is degraded, for instance memory status changed or hardware power [...]

Ivo Beerens just published a new version of his Powershell Healthcheck script. The script will report the following in a nicely formatted html file: VMware ESX server Hardware and version VMware vCenter version Cluster information VMware statistics Active Snapshots CDROMs connected to VMs Floppy drives connected to VMs Datastores Information such as free space RDM information VM information such as [...]

This KB article has just been published: Virtual Machines may unexpectedly reboot after a VMotion migration to an ESX 3.5 Update 3 Host OR after a Power On operation on an ESX 3.5 Update 3 Host, when VMware HA feature with Virtual Machine Monitoring is active. There’s a work around for the problem but I will not be posting them [...]

Veeam just announced 4.0 of the “Management Pack for VMware”, also known as NWorks: Version 4.0 includes comprehensive end-to-end monitoring from ESX Cluster, to ESX Host, to Virtual Machine and to Applications inside the VM. The nworks/Veeam MP now provides integration of application and service data with the VI3 topology. This breakthrough functionality enables a fully integrated picture, with end-to-end [...]