A colleague told me he was seeing some VMware issues on one of our servers. Not being familiar with it, I did search around to see what I could find. I quickly found kb.vmware.com/kb/2038263 which describes the exact issue. From the KB “These warnings are related to the Unity feature of Read more…
vStorage APIs for Array Integration, or VAAI, allows the vSphere ESXi hosts to offload some of their storage workloads to the Storage arrays. Some of these workloads might be Storage vMotion a VM or provisioning a vmdk among others. VAAI is generally enabled by default on Hosts and most Storage Read more…
When attempting to have a host enter maintenance mode recently I got a time out error. Fortunately after a little googling I found a KB here The only thing I needed to do is restart the management services on the host. Once I SSHed into the host it is a Read more…
An important statistic to always be aware of is CPU Ready Time. CPU Ready Time is the amount of time a VM is ready with a workload to use CPU but has to wait to be assigned a slot on the actual hardware CPU. Having a High CPU time can Read more…
VM Swap File Policy Comes down to three choices : WithVM, On a Defined Datastore, or Inherit from on high. Now if that isn’t clear enough, there are also potentially three different places where you can set the VM’s Swap File Policy. These are on the VM, on the cluster, Read more…
Alright, hopefully this will be a quick one. Sometimes with powershell it takes strings of characters and even though you don’t want it to, it interprets them as Regular Expression(Regex). When this happens, sometimes there is really just no way to get around powershell’s understanding of what you want…. Read more…
A SAN HQ server collects the logs from the Equallogic SANs and spit out info and pretty graphs back to the user. Recently we had decommissioned a server where SAN HQ had resided, and although I had installed it on a new server. The old server was still displaying Read more…
Hey! I wanted to throw this one quickly your way. So in vSphere you can see the general status of a datastore. Which gives you all the information, but only shows one datastore at a time. You can look at all the datastores at one time, but don’t get all Read more…
For those who know me at all… I really like PowerCLI Like, Really Like PowerCLI You can get support bundles using the GUI and using vCLI, but why not just do it with PowerCLI, since that is what you are using anyway 🙂 It is that easy. Read more…
With this being the last week of voting I decided to throw together some of My Top picks of sessions you should vote to see at VMWorld!!! I have included the Abstracts as well. So GO VOTE HERE Abstract Occasionally tasks that are simple in the vSphere GUI are not Read more…