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VMware Tools version number higher than expected

11 January, 2012 Gabrie van Zanten 3 Comments ESX, esxi, Virtual Center, VMware, Workstation

Today, when performing a VMware Health Check, I came across a strange issue with a customer of mine. Well, issue is maybe a big word, but I discovered the VMware Tools version some of the VMs had running, were newer than the VMware Tools version from a newly installed VM. To make sure I double […]

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Powershell: TimeSync in VMs and Windows w32time service settings

26 April, 201116 May, 2011 Gabrie van Zanten 1 Comment scripting, VMware

Customer of mine never heard about potential time sync problems in a virtual environment and when checking a number of VMs, I learned that they clearly had no default configuration for TimeSync in the VMware Tools. I decided to write a Powershell script that will list the VMware Tools setting for time sync and for […]

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Memory overcommit in production? YES YES YES

5 January, 20105 January, 2011 Gabrie van Zanten 23 Comments ESX, memory, performance, VMware

There was a good discussion on twitter on memory overcommit and the value of memory overcommit and whether you should or should not use it in production. What struck me in this was that on a subject like this, there is so much misunderstanding although there is a lot of documentation available that can explain […]

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