I really had a hard time coming up with a title for this post. I thought vNoob VCAP-DCA Study Guide is misleading since this isn’t actually a study guide, just my approach to the VCAP-DCA…but I digress. Alright, I am in the middle of studying for the DCA and I Read more…
On the Top navigation bar, you will now find a “Scripts” link. I went through a bunch of my posts(and I have more to go through) looking for scripts and powercli tidbits that I think would be helpful for most people. This will also make it easier to peruse what Read more…
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…
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…
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…
So recently I found there was a fun issue happening on my ESXi Hosts This was happening a couple times a minute, essentially filling up the events tab for each host. Which although it didn’t seem to be affecting performance, it was incredibly annoying and “noisy”. After calling digging in Read more…