Automating vSphere With VMware vCenter Orchestrator
I had some time this past week to read Automating vSphere: With VMware vCenter Orchestrator by Cody Bunch. I stand by my views that vCenter Orchestrator is one of those uncovered gems that …
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Subscribe via RSS →Should You Patch the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance?
With vCenter 5 came the release of the the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance. This move was applauded by many due to the fact that VMware made the first step in the direction of removing their …
vExpert 2012–Thank You!
I am proud to announce that I have been awarded the VMware vExpert award for the year 2012. The current list has been posted here. It is nice to receive such an honor but I would rather like to take …
What Happens When No Swap Volume is Available?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? A customer of mine a small number of VM’s on one host that were continuously crashing. He would power them up and within less than 5 minutes – they would …
The Wind of Change
Of course the title of this post was blatantly borrowed from the Scorpions (I do love the song) For the past 5 years I have designed, implemented and supported our corporate IT infrastructure. We have …
Quick and Dirty PowerCLI to Repair a Disk Space Problem
I ran into a case of a datastore that ran out disk space (why that happened is a whole different story – don’t go there… really…) but because of a whole strange chain of event this …
Open-SDK–Opening the vSphere Management SDK
When writing scripts (I am a fan of PowerCLI of course) there is many a time when I need to get something out of the vSphere SDK so I can dig in and get the details that I am looking for. Of course …
Cause a Linux Kernel Panic or a Windows BSOD
In some testing I was doing with VM HA monitoring – and I would highly recommend Duncan’s post for some more information on the subject - I needed to crash a VM to test the functionality. So in …
NetApp Virtual Storage Console 4.0 Released
Thanks to Christopher Wells for the heads up #NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 4.0 for #VMware vCenter... Now available for download! http://t.co/JUW75aqv (NOW account required) — …
Don’t Let your Datacenter Turn into a Datayard
Last night I tweeted a poll asking this question. The choices that people left are more or less what I was expecting but I still think that this warrants a post explaining my thoughts – and also to …