If you are running a vCloud Director environment, host maintenance and host management is a bit different. Changes you make in vCenter might not reflect correctly inside vCloud. If vCloud Director does not know about certain changes, the stability and performance of your environment is at risk. [Continue reading]
How to fix vCloud VMRC connection issues
Posted on March 15, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment
Sometimes things happen for no reason. I am working in a new, inherited environment these days and a lot of my time is spent investigating, gathering data and information, and of course putting out fires here and there. The last system administrator had left before I started and so I am flying blind a bit, but that is alright. [Continue reading]
How to update Qlogic HBA Firmware on VMware ESX
Posted on August 21, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Recently I ran into an issue with a VMware server running ESX 4.1 U2. The server started crashing randomly. Working with Dell we did a lot of troubleshooting and they replaced a lot of hardware during the process. Dell could not pinpoint the faulty … [Continue reading]
How Fast is Your Web Hosting?
Posted on July 27, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Unless you are living under a rock you have probably heard by now how important it is for a website to load fast. Search engines like Google and Bing have adjusted their search algorithms to include load speed of a website into the decision of how a … [Continue reading]
PowerCLI Clone VMs Script
Posted on July 26, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
One internal customer I have been working with for a while never stops to throw new challenges at me. Initialy the task was to set up 30+ VMs for the customer. Then we had to work through a situation where they wanted to take snapshots, but keep them … [Continue reading]
Clone Your Windows Hard Drive with Ease
Posted on July 8, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
I currently have 2 computers in my house that are quite old, but are working just fine. One is a Dell E4200 Workstation that I bought 6 years ago. Currently my wife uses it as her main computer. 2 Years ago I removed Windows Vista and installed … [Continue reading]
SAN Cleanup with PowerCLI
Posted on June 15, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Recently I had the need to do some SAN storage cleanup. We had VMs that were changed in regards to criticality and accordingly needed to be moved (storage vmotion) to different LUNs. In the environment I currently work in, storage has several tiers … [Continue reading]