About a week ago Eric Sloof wrote about Datacenter Analyzer(RDA) by a company called Replicate Technologies. I think his blog title is a great caption of the product “RDA Rocks”. It does indeed. The one thing that really stands out is the simplicity of implementing the product, their website claims 30 minutes and that’s exactly what it took me. (Could [...]

VMware Wolf is generating some awesome blogposts lately: Common system management issues in VMware Infrastructure Common Network issues in VMware Infrastructure Common Licensing issues in VMware Infrastructure All the blog posts contain a downloadable html file with a grid. The grid contains problems followed by possible resolutions. Great blog posts and very useful information, visit VMware Wolfs blog and download [...]

Today I visited a customer that wanted to enable the VMware tools timesync during an automated install of a Windows VM. The customer didn’t want to use powershell / perl or anyother SDK enabled tool. So what’s left? “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareService.exe” –cmd “vmx.set_option synctime 0 1″ So this command ticks the checkbox for timesync via VMware Tools, which can come [...]

How cool is this video about Distributed Power Management, it demonstrates how DPM works and what the possible utility savings could be. Just watch it:

I’ve been doing VMware Design Reviews lately and so are my colleagues of the PSO department. A Design Review is quick scan of your design documentation by a VMware consultant. The consultant will hold your docs against best practices and propose changes to the design. One of the things we encounter on a regular base is that admins took the [...]

It used to be a best practice to increase the “das.failuredetectiontime” to 30000 for an active/standby setup. This way when a failover to another nic occurs one would have atleast 30 seconds to switch over before HA starts shutting down VM’s. The default value is 15000 by the way. If it’s not really clear I’m talking about a setup like [...]

Three weeks ago i wrote an article on Bluebear’s Kodiak. I guess the main conclusion was “great potential, not enough working features at the moment”. Well, Bluebear’s engineers have been busy lately and added some additional features as you probably read in my previous post. The key message in that post clearly is “Configuration of all standard VM resources is [...]