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vSphere 6.x Observed IP range
Way back when I wrote about the “Observed IP Range” information reported for physical NICs in v5 hosts. I noted among other things that the field seems to be populated by a process that runs at boot time or when … Continue reading
Changing VM reservations on the fly
Heard a question the other day in regards to changing virtual machine reservations on the fly and the resulting impact on the size of the swap (.vswp) file. Every running virtual machine on a VMware ESX/i host has a .vswp … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged ESX, ESXi, reservation, troubleshoot, vSphere, vSphere5 Leave a comment
VMDK alignment (Free p2v / v2v)
Disk alignment is a known problem in virtual environments. Older guest OS (primarily Windows before 2008 tho *nix has the same issue) would start their partitions slightly off the boundary which could cause an increased amount of IOPS. You can … Continue reading
VMware iSCSI Multipath (set all PSPs)
iSCSI Multipath Post 1 (basic) iSCSI Multipath Post 2 (Equallogic script) iSCSI Multipath Post 3 (vSphere5) I found a script at VMware’s PowerShell blog about setting all your LUN Path Selection Policy’s to Round Robin. This is a great trick … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Scripting, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged ESX, ESXi, iSCSI, multipath, round robin, vSphere5 Leave a comment
Consolidate Snapshots
I wrote a post a while back detailing a few ways to correct “stuck” snapshots – delta files that existed on the datastore but were not reported by the GUI. vSphere 5 has a new method of removing them straight … Continue reading
vSphere5 Licensing Part6 : (Redux)
So VMware has revised licensing, you can now allocate 96GB or RAM to VMs per EnterprisePlus license, 64 for Enterprise and 32/CPU license for all other levels. It’s been confirmed you can also manage multiple vSphere license levels from one … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged ESX, licensing, vmware, vSphere, vSphere5 Leave a comment
vSphere5 Licensing: Part 5 (Solution)
So VMware has caused considerable consternation and gnashing of teeth over their new licensing structure. (see Twitter and other places I listed before)
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Vendor rant, Virtualization, VMware Tagged ESX, licensing, vmware, vSphere, vSphere5 Leave a comment
vSphere5 Licensing: Part 4 (add-on)
Blog post in two parts, a review of licensing in vSphere5 and then the point of the post regarding the mechanisms of adding additional licensing to a vSphere5 server.
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged 5, ESX, licensing, vRAM, vSphere5 Leave a comment
vCenter Storage Status “unknown”
I’ve seen a few cases where storage devices (specifically iSCSI or FCP datastores) return a gray “unknown” for a status:
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged ESX, ESXi, storage, troubleshooting, unknown, vSphere Leave a comment
My snapshots are where?
Update: Per the VMware Storage Blog this behavior has changed for 5. In vSphere 5.0, the workingDir parameter still exists, but it will no longer be used as a pointer to a location for storing snapshot delta disks. The workingDir … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Virtualization, VMware Tagged administration, ESX, ESXi, snapshots, storage 1 Comment
