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 […]
Tech Field Day here we come
In a few days I’ll be leaving for Boston to join Tech Field Day 6, Gestalt IT’s first-ever virtualization-focused Field Day event. I’m looking forward to meet up with all the delegates again and hopefully get to hear a lot of new content from the sponsors. What I’m really excited about is that this event […]
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 […]
Powershell: TimeSync in VMs and Windows w32time service settings
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 […]
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 […]