Almost a year ago I wrote an article on a CBT by Train Signal. I really enjoyed watching the CBT and that says a lot coming from someone that never used to be a CBT fan. In the end the ease of learning when and wherever you want is what convinced me. Another reason to use a CBT instead of [...]

I was just troubleshooting a problem with permissions and roles at a customer site within vCenter. For some weird reason we could not create a VM. I hardly ever use this functionality and if I do it’s mostly on a “Hosts & Clusters” level. This customer wanted to set permissions on a “HA-DRS” Cluster level. Each cluster will be administered [...]

A few days ago Scott Lowe asked me which tools I use to deliver a health check engagement. A health check is a standard VMware PSO engagement, a VMware Consultant will be on site to check the status of your environment and will draw up a report. I personally use the following tools: Health Check script by A.Mikkelsen → for [...]

Just received an email that RDA has been updated. Version 1.1 has just been released and the following changes have been incorporated: Easy wizard based setup – get up and running even faster! Larger scale support – RDA now supports much larger deployments. Highly detailed diagnostic analysis, helping you find and fix problems more quickly. Full support for ESXi I’m [...]

Richard Garsthagen managed to find some spare time and update his ESX Host CPU info tool: Interested in knowing if all your physical ESX servers are the same? VMware CPU Host Info will help you find out. The application gathers the important system information from your hosts and puts this in one single overview. The program will tell you if [...]

If you’re a consultant you probably connect with your Virtual Infrastructure Client to a dozen different VirtualCenter servers or ESX hosts every week. After a couple of months the drop down list “IP Address / Name” gets all saturated and it’s impossible to find the right server… So it might come in handy to clear the list every once in [...]

Jason Boche is definitely going for that top ten blogs lists by Eric Siebert. Jason has been releasing high quality blogs over the last couple of week, keep it up! I just noticed his latest addition:” Make VirtualCenter highly available with VMware Virtual Infrastructure“. Which is a great article on the advantages of virtualizing your VirtualCenter server. Jason wasn’t the [...]