I was reading through some partner documentation and found two question and answers that I think will help ease some of the anger surrounding vRAM Entitlements in the VMware user community. This is pretty awesome news! I completely agree with…

Over the weekend I was asked to determine why all virtual machines on a cluster were shutdown at 9:45AM on Sunday. There had been no storms, and the datacenter where this cluster is located has good cooling and great power,…

July 12th VMware officially announced vSphere 5 and all of its awesome new features. One of these “features” is called vRam Entitlements. Basically what this “feature” does is limit the amount of physical RAM that you can put in your…

VMware and its’ partners offer a really cool service to customers called a Health Check. Basically, a Health Check Report is a listing of all of the VMware Best practices… compared to your cluster. It gives you an idea of…

Update: This script was intended for vSphere 4 and had a bunch of limitations. For a newer version with more functionality check out FixingITpro.com. PowerCLI, and Powershell in general, are two things I don’t do much with. I’ve used it…