To USB or not to USB? On Sunday evening there was a good discussion on twitter about booting ESXi from USB stick or not. A number of arguments pro and con were made and like many discussions there is no real right or wrong. I decided to write this post to give my arguments on […]
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Changing NetApp storage policies from non-ALUA to ALUA
My latest customer was still running on VMware ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 and asked me to upgrade their environment. Their whole environment was running on NetApp storage and for ESX there is a change in the Storage Array Type Policy (SATP) and the Path Selection Policy (PSP) when moving from ESX 3.5 to […]
Setting logfile location, swap file, SNMP and vmkcore partition in ESXi
With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1 it has become even more apparent that the next vSphere release will only have an ESXi version. This isn’t world shocking news since VMware had announce this already at VMworld 2009, but somehow many have been triggered to finally make the switch and install ESXi on their ESX […]
Licensing problems with VMware VIEW4
Recently my colleague Jon Klaus was installing VMware VIEW4 with a customer as he ran into a problem. In his setup there where two ESX hosts that each held 10 VDI VM’s and when putting one host into maintenance mode, he received a number of error messages: “The licensing limit on the number of running […]
About ESXi lockdown mode
When you build your virtual infrastructure with only ESXi hosts that you also lock down for security reasons, you might be in for a little surprise when you want to get your VI up and running again after major maintenance or a failure. First thing to do after the virtual infrastructure has been down, is […]