Arne blogged about a cool feature of BGInfo yesterday, but his post is in dutch so it’s not on the Planet V12 RSS feed which is a shame cause it’s definitely usefull info. In short: BGInfo is a handy little SysInternals tool which sets a desktop wallpaper with pre-defined info like total memory, disk info, ip info etc. With BGInfo [...]
Scott’s post pointed me out to the follow up of the VMotion vs Quick Migration post a week ago. I’ve already blogged about the previous articles so here my thoughts on the new one. I guess the most important part of Jeff’s post is this: We’ve drilled into these scenarios further and asked customers, who have currently have Live Migration [...]
Yesterday evening I witnessed a weird phenomenon. We had to bring down a complete environment to move a 19″ rack to a different location. We switched the SAN on, waited a couple of minutes and switched the ESX hosts on. When the ESX hosts finished booting we booted the VirtualCenter. Everything looked normal in the VI Client. I had all [...]
Recently there was an article published on the Microsoft Virtualization Blog which compared Hyper-V’s High Availability/Quick Migration capabilities to VMware’s VMotion. (VMblog pointed me towards the article) In the second article the writer responds on a large amount of reactions he had regarding VMotion being superior: After my last blog I received almost two dozen email telling me that VMotion [...]
Today I combined a couple of Powershell scripts which as a result gives a nice html formatted file with a table. This table contains all VM’s with their VMware Tools status and version. I’ve uploaded the script here. The outcome looks like the following: As you can see, the VMware tools status is “ok” but the versions are totally out [...]
I just received the following: New patches are available for ESX Server 3.0.1 and ESX Server 3.0.2. ESX Server patches can be accessed through the on-line ESX Server Patch Download tool: [http://app.connect.vmware.com/e/er.aspx?s=524&lid=2272&elq=4D5713F997F04342981A231DF09609D0">] Please follow the instructions on the appropriate patch download page. VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 Patches ESX-1003516 (Critical): fixes an issue where snapshot of a Suspended Virtual Machine fails;includes [...]
Clint discovered the following: Source – Ran into a problem while doing some performance testing on some test VMs. We found that we had no historical performance data for the VM or Host. All we had was real time data. This can be a major issue, especially when you are trying to troubleshoot or like in this case get performance [...]
