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 […]
VMware Tools version number higher than expected
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 […]
VKernel interview at Dutch VMUG
At the Dutch VMUG on December 9th, 2011 I was asked to do a little interview with Alex Rosemblat from VKernel. We spoke about the presentation I did at the VMUG in which I talked about my VMware vSphere Health Check. See the pages about the Health Check in the top menu bar. Also check […]
How to make vCenter datastore alarms useful
When visiting customers I noticed that the VMware admin often doesn’t really know how much free space is left on the datastores and wether action is needed to free up space or get extra capacity. When I show them the datastore overview in the VI Client that shows the warnings and alerts for the datastores, […]
VMware vSphere Health Check – CPU Memory and Storage checks explained
The VMware vSphere Health Check performs quite a number of checks but doesn’t really explain why values are good or bad. Today I released three new sections that explain the theory behind the CPU, Memory and Storage checks. Click the “Health Check” button in the menu bar of my blog to access these new sections […]