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Second NIC for Monitoring
In a current project, it was necessary to connect the vSphere Replication appliance to a second monitoring network as the...
Monitoring vSphere 5.1 with Nagios/Icinga – Part 2
Hello, and welcome back to my series of “Monitoring vSphere 5.1 with Nagios/Icinga” series. In part 1 we covered some...
vCloud Director Appliance stops working – out of disk space
Playing around with vCloud Director Appliance in my lab, I downloaded vApps to a CIFS share to make b ackups...
Installing vSphere SDK for Perl on Ubuntu
I just wasted another 30min of my life finding out what I had found out before like 100 times. I...
ESXi Shell – Fixing esxtop Output via SSH
Being a big fan of command lines, I usually enable SSH on all of my ESXi hosts. I use SSH...
vPMC – Virtual Performance Monitoring Counters
I remember reading the paper “Virtualizing Performance Counters” by Benjamin Serebrin and Daniel Hecht some time ago. I guess that...
Checking Local Disks’ S.M.A.R.T. Status
In this very short post, I am going to demonstrate the new S.M.A.R.T. checking feature that is new in ESXi...
vSphere Ghost NICs
Only three days ago, I came across something I first considered to be a bug. It turned out it was...
vCloud vCloud Director – VMRC Bandwidth Usage
Last week I was asked about the estimated bandwidth requirement for a VMRC based console connection through a vCloud Director...