Mike Laverick of www.rtfm-ed.co.uk tweeted earlier about a home lab outage that caused all his NFS mounts to go offline. While I agree with about having a ‘reload NFS mounts’ button, there are some tweaks that can be done on … Continue reading
Nick Weaver of nickapedia.com fame posted a ‘quick-and-dirty’ script to enable VAAI across a whole infrastructure – great script except it would likely have been a P45 for me had I run it! I altered the script, and placed it … Continue reading
Recently I needed to rescan around 300 hosts, all in seperate clusters. While the script worked as expected, I much prefer to implement it into a function for ease-of-(re)use This function expects to already be connected to a VC server, … Continue reading
See the in-progress photo’s of my Yamaha FZR 400 as I get it back on the road Continue reading
I’ve been running through some VCAP-DCA study guides ( the excellent ones from vExperienced and Carlos Vargas) and have come across some confuion around iSCSI MPIO. I have tried the commands listed as below, but they error out: 1. esxcli … Continue reading
After moving some storage around (I need to rebuild by Nexenta iSCSI san to add in a SSD) I seem to have lost my Virtual Centre VM. Not wanting to do a rebuild, and having been running VDR to test … Continue reading
My wife and I have been awaiting our wedding photo’s, and they’ve finally been posted! Louise & André | Tulbagh Christine’s pictures are amazing, and when we saw them we knew we had to use her! Everything fell into place … Continue reading
At work we use a number of storage systems, but most hosts are connected to some big 3PAR systems. These arrays are fully active/active (rather than ALUA – see Duncan Epping’s excellent post) and can run Round-Robin policies with ESX4. … Continue reading
Having recently completed a ‘lab’ setup to prepare for the VCAP-DCA exams, I got to thinking about noise and power use. I have 3 servers running 24/7 right now but don’t actually *need* 2 of the 3 running all … Continue reading
Having run into a few ‘high ready time’ alerts recently, and suffering through a perceived lack of performance on a number of VM’s, I ran through our datacentre’s to see if I could find any wasteful VM’s. These had been … Continue reading