This is especially useful for SMB who don’t have large environments, and can’t throw resources at a vCenter Server This is what one of my vCenter Servers looked like recently To give some insight, this is a vCenter that manages…
Post VMworld Resources
Although VMworld 2014 US is now over, we can still continue to learn from it. Even if you accomplished everything you set out to do at VMworld, there is never a way to do everything there. Or Maybe you didn’t…
VMware vCenter MDMP Files
My vCenter Server was acting up and throwing a bunch of random errors. When I started investigating it appeared that the C drive was out of space. Completely Out. Yeah, I guess I haven’t been a very good administrator…. So…
VMHost Heartbleed Fix for ESXi 5.5
If you don’t know about Heartbleed yet…Well I don’t know what to say… I guess check this out. http://heartbleed.com/ Unfortunately, ESXi is susceptible to this The full kb is here from VMware http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2076665 Fortunately it can be patched with everyone’s…
VMware Update Manager Errors On Scan
While working on getting my hosts properly patched, I found I couldn’t even do a scan on them. Alright so next I took a look at the esxupdate log on the host. Both of these correspond to a VMware kb…
Cannot Synchronize Host Error
There were a couple of Hosts in a cluster that had been in maintenance mode for a while. One morning I look and see this error So naturally I see if there is a KB, and there is …
Clearing Stubborn Hardware Status Errors
Sometimes those hardware status Errors/Warnings do not want to clear even after you have fixed the issue In my case, I had a drive failed in a ESXi host that had 2 drives in Raid 1. No Biggie, just replace…
Find vCPU to Physical CPU Ratio with PowerCLI
This is an interesting thing that I have been looking at lately. Before I start though I should probably clarify terms, so we are all speaking the same language. In this article when I say Physical CPU, or pCPU, what…
Time for 2014 Top vBlogs!
It is that time of year again where everyone votes for their Top Blogs!!! Last year I was excited to be placed 135, which was much higher than my previous year 163. This year I hope I can move up…
Create Equallogic Volumes with Firmware 7.0.1
After updating Equallogic to 7.0.1. The first thing you will notice is the look. . For those of you will other Dell products, this will probably look familiar as Dell seems to be updating all of their products to have…