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vDoctor Sessions – Gabes Virtual World
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If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can consult the vDoctor! Some examples on what I think a session could be about:. Think together with you on design questions: “When using UCS Blades with two physical nics, how should I design the virtual network for this? 8221; or “How to make SSO and vSphere Web Client redundant? Explain a specific vSphere or vCloud concept to you: “How do shares, reservations and limits work? What will this NOT be? It is important to b...
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Memory health check – Gabes Virtual World
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This article is part of the VMware vSphere Health Check PowerPack. More info can be found here: VMware vSphere Health Check PowerPack. VMs with Active Swap or Active ballooning. Note: Although host memory shortage is the most common issue for swapping to occur, there can be other reasons as well. For example setting a memory limit on a VM lower than the amount of assigned RAM for the VM, will cause ballooning and swapping even though there is enough free host memory. ESX host memory usage and overcommit.
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Manage your VMware Metro Storage Cluster with Tags – Gabes Virtual World
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Manage your VMware Metro Storage Cluster with Tags. 23 April, 2015. 2 November, 2015. To get more information on VMware Metro Storage Cluster read the following articles:. Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) using HP 3PAR Peer Persistence (2055904). Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) using EMC VPLEX (2007545). VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study. In this post I used an example and image from the VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study). To prevent these sc...
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vSphere Health Check – Gabes Virtual World
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Credits for this VMware vSphere Health Check. This Health Check consists of a number of PowerShell checks that have been created by some of the well-known PowerShell guru’s from the VMware Community and I wrote some myself. The VMware Community PowerShell pack. Served as a basis of most checks but I have tried to edit them to not only show a table with values but also show you wether these results are good or bad for your environment. How to use the VMware vSphere Health Check. When using the VMware vSph...
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Auto Deploy – Gabes Virtual World
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After release of vSphere5 I got very interested in one of its new features called VMware vSphere 5 Auto Deploy. I’ve been playing around with it for some time now and wrote a series of blog posts on it:. VSphere 5 How to run ESXi stateless with vSphere Auto Deploy. Updating your ESXi host using VMware vSphere 5 Auto deploy. My first Auto Deploy design for real production environment. Auto Deploy GUI a new VMware Labs fling. VSphere 5 Auto Deploy PXE booting through Cisco ASA firewall. 12 September, 2016.
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Check the health of your storage paths – Gabes Virtual World
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Check the health of your storage paths. 30 March, 2015. 28 March, 2015. With the help of Luc Dekens (Thank you Luc! We now have a new script that we run in our vCheck every day. Per host each LUN should be connected over four paths (in our environment) and the script shows LUNs on a per host basis that have less than four paths. If your environment has a different number of paths, you can easily change this in the script. To be used in Alan Renouf’s vCheck. Check correct path policy of RDMs. 21 May, 2015.
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Check correct path policy of RDMs – Gabes Virtual World
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Check correct path policy of RDMs. 15 April, 2015. Our vSphere version combined with EMC VNX MCX OE version advices Round Robin as path policy. For RDMs used by a Microsoft Cluster however, Most-Recently-Used is the adviced policy. If a Microsoft Cluster has the incorrect path policy, there is a hughe latency on the RDM. We have noticed that reboot of the ESXi host or forced rescan of the HBA will reset the path policy selection. And added our own plugin. Check the health of your storage paths. VSphere 5...
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Cisco UCS firmware update bug – Gabes Virtual World
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Cisco UCS firmware update bug. 21 May, 2015. Just ran into a Cisco UCS bug. When upgrading the UCS firmware of your environment, some B200M4 blades may reboot spontaniously. I won’t tell you how I found out, but be sure to read this article:. Cisco Bug: CSCut61527 – B200M4 could reboot on shallow chkpt when BMC returns invalid FRU data. https:/ tools.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCut61527. Affected firmware: 2.2(3) and 2.2(3a)A according to the KB. My upgrade was from 2.2(3c) to 2.2(3f). 12 September, 2016.
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Storage checks – Gabes Virtual World
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This article is part of the VMware vSphere Health Check PowerPack. More info can be found here: VMware vSphere Health Check PowerPack. Reading tip: “ Analyzing SCSI Reservation conflicts on VMware Infrastructure 3.x and vSphere 4.x. Datastore and LUN info. This is just an handy list that maps LUN ID’s, LUN Name and Datastores to each other for easy reference. Reading tips: “ Performance Characterization of VMFS and RDM Using a SAN. This check shows you the blocksizes of your VMFS datastores. This check g...
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Gabrie van Zanten – Gabes Virtual World
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Author: Gabrie van Zanten. VCenter appliance database issue. 12 September, 2016. 11 September, 2016. Recently I had an issue in my homelab environment. Because of some power outages, my vCenter Appliance hadn’t been shutdown correctly and now vCenter didn’t start correctly anymore. After some searching I found that the database could not be loaded. In the VMware KBs I couldn’t find anything that fixes the start up of the […]. 17 March, 2016. 5 February, 2016. Cisco UCS firmware update bug. 21 May, 2015.
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