Just a short post on some thoughts I had on improvements for VMware vSphere when I wanted to delete a datastore holding 10 VMs. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to put a datastore in maintenance mode like you can with an ESX host. When the datastore is set into maintenance mode, vCenter would […]
VMware Capacity Planner troubleshooting tips
My last VMware Capacity Planner job with a customer was a little cumbersome. The customer had around 350 systems spread all over the world and links between them with high latency which normally is just within limits, but it seemed the Capacity Planner had troubles with it. It took quite some time getting everything running […]
Assigning VLAN / Portgroup permissions in vCenter 4
Something I have been wanting since Virtual Center 2.5 / ESX 3.x is VLAN permissions. I would like to be able to allow certain admins to connect VLANs (actually to be 100% correct I should call them portgroups) to a VM, but for example for the DMZ VLANs I would only like to assign a […]
Converting vscsiStats data into Excel charts
Some time ago I wrote a posting on how to use vscsiStats to gather even more data from your VMs and their SCSI performance ( See: Using vscsiStats – the full how-to). Last week I received an e-mail from Paul Dunn who had written an Excel macro that can read the output from the vscsiStats […]
Chinwag with Mike Laverick and Gabrie Van Zanten
Mike Laverick asked me to do a little video Chinwag with him. The main topic we discussed was about VDI licensing. Follow this link to Mike’s post: http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2010/02/17/chinwag-with-mike-and-gabrie-van-zanten-episode-03/