Normaly when installing a vSphere environment for new customers, I wait with entering the correct licenses until the environment is ready and can be moved to production. Until today I never ran into any issues with that since most of our customers buy Enterprise or Enterprise Plus edition. Today I discovered that after entering a [...]

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by Gabrie van Zanten
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Ever wanted to know how often DRS is vmotioning your VMs? You can extract this info from the VC database by the following query:

Filed under: ESX - Virtual Center - VMotion / DMotion - VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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A few days ago I posted about problems with Storage VMotion. Unfortunately it turned out that these problems appeared on an unsupported configuration. In the comments on my post, Bob Slovick wrote the following: “Bob Slovick // Jan 24, 2008 at 8:26 That post refers to a person that is using the Qlogic HBAs with [...]

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by Gabrie van Zanten
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