Kelly Olivier had a good question on the VMTN Communities. How can I check from the Service Console which network load balancing I’m using? Of course his first bet was “vmware-vim-vmd” but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be an option to show which load balancing policy is being used. As far as I know there’s another way to show this: [...]
Got a question today on how to change the licensing server from the Service Console or how to add the license server via a scripted install. Of course “vmware-vim-cmd” is the keyword here. If you want to use a license server you will need to use the first option, if you want to add a license file you will need [...]
I just replied to a topic on the VMTN forums and thought it might be useful to write it down here as well. (I thought I already did, but a search didn’t turn up anything.) When a VM gets stuck during shutdown or isn’t responding anymore you can easily kill the VM. First option is the command line version of [...]
I have been requested by several people to do an update of my original Service Console Redundancy article. Although personally, I am still of the opinion that the three options stated in the article are still valid I have rewritten them and dropped one option, as now a days the majority of companies now have a decent infrastructure with vlan’s.
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” [...]
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 [...]
While doing a “mini-healthcheck” at a customer site I noticed a specific Datastore with less than 2% of free diskspace. After a bit of research an orphaned VMDK was found. Orphaned vmdk’s are virtual hard-disks that are not connected to a VM. Probably because they were removed from the inventory without deleting the files. You can easily find these orphaned [...]
