Recently my colleague Jon Klaus was installing VMware VIEW4 with a customer as he ran into a problem. In his setup there where two ESX hosts that each held 10 VDI VM’s and when putting one host into maintenance mode, he received a number of error messages: “The licensing limit on the number of running [...]
When you build your virtual infrastructure with only ESXi hosts that you also lock down for security reasons, you might be in for a little surprise when you want to get your VI up and running again after major maintenance or a failure. First thing to do after the virtual infrastructure has been down, is [...]
Daily, I have contact with a lot of people from all over the world. Contact through virtual media like MSN, GTalk, Twitter, online forum, e-mail, etc. And for me, meeting quite a number of them at VMworld in Cannes, is kind of exciting. I’m really looking forward to meeting all these people in real life. [...]
A lot of people try to figure out how HA calculates the failover level. I already did know that VC 2.0 use a slot size based on max cpu and memory for the “worst” VM,
Ever wanted to know how often DRS is vmotioning your VMs?
You can extract this info from the VC database by the following query:
