Category: VMware

VMworld public voting has started

VMworld is just a few months away. And this year I submitted along with Eric Sloof (@esloof) a session called Snapshot Deepdive. Snapshot deepdive Making a snapshot of a virtual machine is one of the most common tasks an administrator can do with a virtual machine. Snapshots make our life must easier by providing a […]

Wednesday May 30th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

Why does the original home directory of my virtual machine still exists after a storage vMotion?

Last weekend I implemented a new storage DRS cluster for a customer of mine. I must say, storage DRS rocks! But this is off topic for this post. If you want to know more in depth storage DRS stuff. Check Frank Denneman website. After I implemented the storage DRS cluster I wanted to move about […]

Wednesday May 30th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

New vExpert 2012 logo

Just a quick post. Last week I received a mail from VMware with information about the vExpert 2012 program. One of those items was a link to the new vExpert 2012 logo. So I thought to share this with you guy’s.

Monday May 21st, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

vApp: The operation is not allowed in the current state

I was upgrading some VMs that were a member of a vApp. During the process I noticed that all the VMs had really old snaphosts. As most of you probably know leaving a VM in snapshot mode for a long time isn’t wise because it can fill-up your datastore. So I removed the snaphosts from […]

Tuesday May 1st, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

Amount of CPU cores vs. CPU Mhz

While performing a performance analysis for a customer, one of the things that came up is the lack op CPU power. Meaning, He had over committed the amount of vCPU’s. This is easily resolved by adding more CPU’s to the cluster. While discussing witch hardware to buy we ended up in the following discussion. Is […]

Wednesday March 21st, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »