Access the DCUI from a Remote SSH Session
I posted a tweet tonight. Love it that you access the DCUI from a putty session pic.twitter.com/ODZuFaYMmL — Maish Saidel-Keesing (@maishsk) August 8, 2013 I needed to restart the management …
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Troubleshooting
Subscribe via RSS →All I Did Was Add a VMkernel Interface (Routing)
That was the call I got today. “All I did was add a VMkernel interface and my host lost connection to vCenter”. On went my troubleshooting hat. First the environment (simplified) The …
Error Removing Nexus 1000V VEM
I encountered this last week and was not find any reference to my specific problem – so I am documenting it here. I was trying to remove the Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM from the ESXi hosts in my lab. This …
Copy-DatastoreItem - Understanding the Traffic Flow
I brought this up on Twitter a while ago. What network path will the transfer take when using Copy-DatastoreItem - does anyone know? — Maish Saidel-Keesing (@maishsk) January 8, 2013 I studied …
Invoke-VMScript Failed - and how I was Baffled.
Luc Dekens wrote a great post a while back Will Invoke-VMScript work? about the prerequisites needed in order to get Invoke-VMscript to work. Stop for a minute and go and read his post. Glad to have …
Guest Customization on Ubuntu 12.04 Fails
I came across an issue today – trying to deploy a Ubuntu Precise VM from a template and applying a customization setting to the VM – with default DHCP configuration. These are the errors I was getting …
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 …
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 …
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) — …