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Using opvizor
I introduced Opvizor a couple of days ago and figured why not give it a spin with a vm-support files of one of my hosts in my lab. I used vCenter to create the vm-support file, for those who have...
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Binding a vCloud Director Provider vDC to an ESX Host?
One of our partners was playing around with vCloud Director and noticed that they could create a Provider vDC and link it directly to an ESX Host. vCloud Director did not complain about it so they...
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How cool is TPS?
Frank and I have discussed this topic multiple times and it was briefly mentioned in Frank’s excellent series about over-sizing virtual machines; Zero Pages, TPS and the impact of a boot-storm....
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Repeated characters when typing in your VMs remote console?
Today I was working on a couple of test scenarios in a remote lab. For some reason the latency was a lot higher than normal and I was very difficult to type anything in the Remote Console through the...
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vShield App broke down on the host that is running vCenter now what?
I was playing around with vShield App and I locked out my vCenter VM which happened to be hosted on the cluster which was protected by vShield App. Yes I know that it is not recommended, but I have a...
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ESXi commandline work….
I am just playing around in my lab and needed to do a couple of common ESXi commandline tasks which I figured I would document as they will come in handy at some point. List all VMs registered to this...
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vSphere HA Waiting for cluster election to complete Operation timed out?
I noticed this thread on the VMTN communtity which discussed a time-out during a cluster election process. The one thing all scenarios described in the topic is that they upgraded from 4.1 to 5.0 or...
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Problems using the vCenter Web Client
I was doing some upgrades in my lab and ran in to an issue. Whenever I started the vCenter Web Client I got a message that the vCenter Inventory Service wasn’t running. I looked at my Services section...
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Why is %WAIT so high in esxtop?
I got this question today around %WAIT and why it was so high for all these VMs. I grabbed a screenshot from our test environment. It shows %WAIT next to %VMWAIT. First of all, I suggest looking at...
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Testing your infrastructure!
Last week I was helping someone on the VMTN community forums. They were hitting what appeared to be strange HA behavior. After some standard questions this person told me that all VMs were powered...
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