Last night I updated my VI3 card with a smattering of new bits and pieces. I made small changes to the Networking, MSCS, VMs and VirtualCenter sections. This isn’t a big update and you’d need a keen eye to spot anything. A big thanks to Adam White for a couple of corrections he alerted me […]
I’ve been using the new Storage VMotion functionality fairly heavily over the last couple of months. I have encountered a couple of significant bugs whilst using it, which have resulted in corrupted VMDK files. Here are my two tips when using Storage VMotion, to avoid the problems I have seen: Ensure that you have sufficient […]
For anyone who doesn’t subscribe to Duncan Epping’s great blog, he reminded me of this great command line snippet: Enter maintenance mode from the ESX command line: vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter I have used this command several times in anger. It is particularly useful if you can’t get to your VirtualCenter server for whatever reason. […]
I’ve been reading up on the new Site Recovery Manager (SRM) product. Here are some things I’ve noticed, that others might be interested in: NFS is not currently supported. Only Fibre Channel and iSCSI. Raw Device Mapping (RDMs) are not supported. This will really hit those using MSCS for critical services – I suppose this […]