Friday, February 22, 2013

Guest customization - vCloud Director and vSphere

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One nice feature that VMware Tools brings is the possibility to inject and run scripts directly in the virtual machine - be it bash or batc...
Friday, February 15, 2013

PowerCLI - multiple vMotion to prepare host for maintenance

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One of the clusters I work on has been recently upgraded to new servers with 128 MB of RAM. This makes the cluster RAM pool huge compared t...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

vCloud Director storage calculation and allocation

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A couple of days ago, my colleague trying to deploy a new vApp in an Organization vDC hit the storage limit. Because on paper he should hav...
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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Masking and unmasking LUNs from ESXi

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In this post I`ll present how to mask/unmask a LUN with MASK_PATH plugin and using esxcli on ESXi 5.1.  MASKING The  datastore to be ma...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

PowerCLI - Starting and stopping SSH

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From time to time I need to go connect on the ESXi using SSH. I know it is not best practice, still I have to do it. And the most simple ta...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

VMware DirectPath I/O - adding passthrough PCI devices to VM

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VMware DirectPath I/O allows guest OS to directly access physical PCI and PCIe devices connected to host. There several things to check befo...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

vShield Edge Gateway "IP Masquerading" in vCD 5.1

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vCloud Director 5.1 comes with some changes from 1.5, in the sense that IP masquerading setting was removed and there is no default rule on...