Posts Tagged ‘VMware’

When trying to perform a Round Robin (RR) test on my vSphere 4.1 environment, I needed to know the number of paths available to the luns of the test servers. I also needed to change the Path Selection Policy (PSP) for the luns to Round Robin (VMW_PSP_RR). I could have done this easily using the [...]

On Decembre 2nd, VMware released PowerCLI 4.1.1 (or PowerCLI 4.1 Update1 as VMware calls it). Although this is a minor release, it contains more than just some bugfixes. The new release contains several enhancements and quite a couple of new cmdlets. Let’s have a look at some of the new improvements in PowerCLI 4.1.1:

Using the ESX [...]

During VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen I had the opportunity to have a glimpse of the VMware vCloud Director (vCD). While back in 2009 VMware was only still introducing the foundation for cloud computing by releasing vSphere 4, now just one year later, they actually did it and provide the software to actually enable cloud [...]

Last Monday, Eric Siebert published the results of the Top25 VMware Virtualization Bloggers survey. Also watch the vChat episode 8 where the Top25 is announced.
Big Congrats to all of you who made it into the Top25. Great Job!
While the previous vote back in January 2010 had a total of 66 blogs, there were now 115 [...]

As you may have noticed, PowerCLI 4.1 has some cool new features for accessing the underlying SDK objects from within the PowerCLI objects. Before PowerCLI 4.1 your only door to the SDK objects was using the Get-View cmdlet, but you can use the .ExtensionData property now. This makes it much easier and requires less code [...]

Eric Siebert has opened up another “Vote Your Favourite Top 25 VMware Virtualization Blogs” poll over at vSphere-land.com.  Please take a moment and cast your vote  for your favourite 10 VMware virtualization blogs.  It’ll take only a couple of minutes of your time and you can win a free copy of Eric’s new book,  Maximum [...]

Whenever you need to install a new box with ESX, there’s the struggle with matching physical ports to VMware devices. Which network adapter becomes vmnic0?, Which hostbus adapter becomes vmhba1?, etc. Especially when you have a lot of network adapters this can be confusing and you can’t connect to the device over the network unless you [...]

Watching the twittersphere for vExpert announcements, I was intrigued by the need for people to be on a list. A lot of people contacted me that they were missing from the vExpert twitter avatar list on my vExpert 2010 post. I also saw many people ask Maish Saidel-Keesing to include them on his VMware vExpert [...]

Today I woke up and found out that I was rewarded as a VMware vExpert 2010. I’m deeply honored to be designated for this award and to become part of this selected group of great minds. I want to thank VMware and the vExpert judges for selecting me. A special Thank You goes to John Troyer, the [...]

Vizioncore just released the newest version of the vEcoShell (Virtualization EcoShell). As a user and developer of VMware PowerCLI scripts I almost use the vEcoShell on a daily basis. The amazing thing about the vEcoShell is that you don’t need any scripting experience to use PowerCLI scripts and examples found on the web. If you [...]