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vCloud Director: Low Performance Powering On A vApp
I am working in a project including vCloud Director as well as most other parts of VMware’s cloud stack for...
Recovering From a Faulty State
Hi, I started playing with OpenStack Havana recently and will share what I came accross starting with this post. This...
Update Manager Error: Cannot create a ramdisk
We ran into a problem with Update Manager on vSphere 5.1 lately: Cannot create a ramdisk of size 329MB to...
What’s New in vSphere 5.5
With VMworld 2013 in progress and the new version of vSphere becoming GA soon, I found it was time to...
PowerCLI – Waiting for Guest Customization to Finish
Only a couple of days ago, a customer asked for a script to deploy hundreds of VMs with a couple...
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...