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Monday, July 5th, 2010
There are many scripts and commands listed in the /sbin folder on an ESXi4 host and many are just unknown for the majority of us, including me. I wanted to dig in and ran all of them just to ‘see’ what they do. I’ve intentionally left out in this article all the ...
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
It was time to upgrade and enhance my home lab to stick with my needs. First of all I finally decided to buy an Intel SSD X25-M G2 160GB on eBay. So the Intel SSD got delivered this week and I spent some times to run benchmark tests against the SSD. For ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
I was reading a recently published article at Microsoft Technet about how Microsoft.com moved to a virtualized infrastructure. The article describes the why and how Microsoft deployed a virtualized infrastructure using in-house products such Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows 2008 R2. Eat its own dog food is popular these days. VMware and ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure to have an one to one phone call with Alex Bakman, Founder and CTO of VKernel.com. We discussed about a new FREE tool that VKernel was about to release called StorageVIEW. The news was under embargo until Monday, June 21st so I could not publish anything ...
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Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Yesterday, after the release of Update2 for vSphere 4.0, I managed today to create a video demoing the new (R)ESXTOP statistics for NFS Datastores. In my home lab using vSphere Host Update Utility 4.0, I upgraded one of my nested ESXi4.oU1 host to U2 (Build 261974). That nested host has two datastores: ...
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
After reading the VMware ESX 4.0 Update 2 Release Notes, and especially the What’s New, I was happy to discover that at least ESXTOP/RESXTOP now allow you to get performance counters for NFS datastores. ESX was missing this feature like the deserts miss the rain Enhancement of the esxtop/resxtop utility— vSphere 4.0 ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
This Saturday, June 5th I received an email from John Troyer announcing that I have been designated as a VMware vExpert 2010 and I was invited to participate in VMware program this year. This is the first time for me and I’m truly honored that John and his array of judges found that ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Have you ever been in a situation where you forgot VM in snapshot mode, snapshot that has grown up to fill out the datastore disk space, leaving just 10MB, putting down the VM itself but also compromising all other VMs located on that same datastore? Well that’s what happened to a customer of mine and hopefully we ...
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Two huge events, two continents. vmworld 2010 hosted by VMware will be unmissable for all virtualization geeks out there. These are the kind of events that gives you unparalleled access to educational opportunities that will show you how to reduce IT complexity, and enable IT as a service through virtualization and ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
At a customer site I was having problems with an ESXi4.0U1. The host was part a of cluster of 10 other ESXi4.0U1 hosts. VMware HA/DRS was turned on, a few Resource Pools were created. The other hosts were running fine except this one. Every time I wanted to start a virtual ...
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