I just noticed that my friend Bilal over at cloud-buddy.com has a nice Christmas challenge up on his blog! You can win a free VMware Workstation license and a 365 day eval license and a couple of e-books! Worth checking out in my opinion, give it a shot… you might be the lucky one. Free vSphere 5 goodies for vGeeks – [...]

I had a question from one of my colleagues last week about Isolation Response and IP Storage. His customer has an ISCSI storage infrastructure and recently implemented a new vSphere environment. When one of the hosts was isolated virtual machines were restarted and users started reporting strange problems. What happened was that the HA Isolation Response was configured to “Leave [...]

I had a question last week about multi NIC vMotion. The question was if multi NIC vMotion was a multi initiator / multi target solution. Meaning that, if available, on both the source and the destination multiple NICs are used for the vMotion / migration of a VM. Yes it is! It is complex process as we need vMotion to [...]

A couple of weeks back I received the news that one of the sessions I submitted was accepted for VMware Partner Exchange 2012. PEX is held in Las Vegas from the 13th til the 16th of February. There’s an excellent program again. Make sure to check the full list here. If you haven’t signed up yet, do it quick as [...]

I had a question today from someone who asked if there was any point in enabling SIOC (Storage IO Control) when you have NIOC (Network IO Control) enabled and configured. Lets start with the answer: Yes there is! NIOC controls traffic on a single NIC port level. In other words, when you have 10GbE NIC ports and vMotion, VMs and [...]

After I posted my article yesterday Jason Boche posted a comment about the reboot that was required according to the screenshot. I looked in to it and quickly realized that if I would alter my “descriptor.xml” I would not get this message. In other words, it depends on the package that is installed if a reboot is required or not, [...]

** Be warned, this is totally unsupported. Only for educational purposes should this be used ** Today I was asked the question on how to create a VIB file (.vib). In our documentation it is mentioned that you can create a VIB file to add firewall rules to your ESXi host. As the .vib tool is not available yet to [...]