Zerto http://www.Zerto.com/ (Zero RTO) is a startup company that I first heard about when they were presenting at the Techfield Day in Boston. All information was under embargo, which didn’t allow us delegates to publish about Zerto until June 22nd and so I had to wait with this post until now. The presentation done by […]
Virtual Center
VMware vCenter 4.1 GUI issue on shares
When checking a customers environment, I discovered a strange GUI issue in vCenter regarding CPU shares for a VM. I usually use a PowerShell script to check if the customer has set any limits, reservations or changed the default shares settings. With this customer I received a number of warnings about shares. I received the […]
Migrating distributed vSwitch to new vCenter
Customer called me to ask how they could easily migrate their existing vCenter to a new vCenter including all distributed vSwitches. They were moving from vCenter 4.0 to vCenter 4.1 and at the same time creating an AD intergrated vCenter and moving from physical to a virtual vCenter. The upgrade path would be a difficult […]
VMware vSphere client for iPad released too early
Today VMware released the long awaited VMware vSphere client for the iPad. Since VMworld 2010 the rumors where that the vSphere client for iPad would be released anytime soon, but unfortunately we had to wait until today before we could play with it. The VMware vSphere client for the iPad is FREE and great for […]
Power on VMs from ESXi command line
Ran into some stupid issue today. Don’t know why but suddenly I lost the storage of my homelab and all VMs had frozen and eventually crashed. Since my vCenter is running as a VM, it had gone too and I couldn’t manage my hosts anymore. Therefore I wanted to make a direct connection to the […]