Setting the Congestion Threshold Value for Storage I/O Control
This is a great KB article from VMware worth reposting. I'm going to start analyzing storage I/O more today on all the arrays I have and LUNs. Article…
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Batch File to Cleanup Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003 User Profiles, Temp Folders, Internet Explorer Temporary Files
I've had this around for the longest time and figured I better put it here before I lose it forever to the dying Microsoft releases. Note: This also…
End of Availability of VMware ESX 4.x
Dear Valued Customer, VMware is announcing an End of Availability (“EoA”) date for VMware vSphere® ESX hypervisor 4.x and for VMware Management Assistant (“vMA”) versions 1…
Can't Bind Windows 2008 R2 VM to Interface for DHCP
UPDATE: I had originally thought I had resolved this by removing/re-adding the adapter. Turns out the issue reappeared this morning. After more researching, I found that it was…
What is VDI?
Virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI is a computing model that adds a layer of virtualization between the server and the desktop PCs. VMware describes Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)…
A few notes on Guest Virtual Machine Memory Ballooning
Looking over some of my Windows 2008 R2 servers, I notice via Task Manager that their memory is 90%+ quite often. Using Sysinternal’s RAMMap tool, I can quickly…
Get VM Extra Configuration Details
Add-PSSnapin VMware.vimautomation.core Connect-VIServer -server 10.10.10.1 -user "user" -password "luser" (get-vm -name "ZEUS").extensiondata.config.extraconfig | sort key | format-table Example Output Key Value DynamicType DynamicProperty --- ----- ----------- --------------- ethernet0.pciSlotNumber…
Hardware Monitoring on This Host is Not Responding
I received the following error this morning on my vCenter server after a brief reboot for a few Windows updates: Hardware Monitoring on This Host is Not Responding…
Set Ambient Temperature Alarm VMware ESX Host
I had some temperature spikes in the data center recently that caused havoc and for some reason I never received notifications. I guess this isn't configured to email…
Testing Disk in Linux using fio
I recently discovered a utility called fio that allows you to benchmark disk subsystem in Linux. Here are the results for this test. What is fio? fio is…
Migrating to vNetwork Distributed Switch
Came across a great step-by-step article on migrating from standard vSwitch to vNetwork Distributed Switch in VMware vSphere 4.1.x. Zod Chen did a great write-up on his site…
VMware VirtualCenter Service will not start
VMware VirtualCenter Service will not start. The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated with service-specific error The system cannot find the file specified.. I found that this is because…
Use VMware VMRC Viewer Outside of Browser
I was trying to find a way to configure the vSphere Web Console plugin port it connects to since I run a non-standard port for SSL on the…
VMware Tray Dump Files Chewing up Space
I was checking out a server today (2003) and noticed that it was a tad low on disk space on the OS disk. It's a terminal server and…
VMware Data Recovery – Everything You Need To Know (BCO1432)
VMware Data Recovery – Everything You Need To Know (BCO1432) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gvjbJXulSA