Posted on July 18, 2011 by | 0 Comments
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,…
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Posted on July 13, 2011 by | 8 Comments
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…
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Posted on July 11, 2011 by | 0 Comments
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…
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Posted on July 8, 2011 by | 5 Comments
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…
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Posted on July 1, 2011 by | 1 Comment
It looks like I can add one more credential to my about page today. This morning I checked my email and found the email I had been hoping for… confirmation on becoming part of the 2011 VMware vExpert group! I…
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Posted on June 30, 2011 by | 0 Comments
I just wanted to take a second to thank everyone who reads my blog. June exceeded my expectations once again on the number of unique visitors as well as the number of page views. I appreciate everyone who has bookmarked…
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Posted on June 28, 2011 by | 2 Comments
I did a post a while ago about things I would like to see Veeam add to their road map, and I don’t think that any of them were added, but it’s always fun to speculate. So I obviously have…
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