19 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Virtual Machines Running or Registered on Multiple ESX Servers

Does your vCenter flicker when browsing clusters? There could be a problem… Over the last 3 years I’ve seen this happen twice and both times it was not good. Both cases were caused from an HA event that was interrupted, which left multiple VMs registered on more than one host. Fortunately, the VM stays running and the fix does not [...]

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18 June 2011 ~ 5 Comments

VMware ESXTOP Commands for Storage Monitoring

VMware ESXTOP Commands for Storage Monitoring Let me just say that lately I’ve been spending way too much time learning about storage. The differences between 3PAR, HP, EMC, Lefthand and NetApp. How to configure, how to carve it, aggregates, LUN, spindle, IOPS, volumes, RAID groups, disk group, parity groups, queue depth, dedupe, replication, snapshot, and so [...]

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