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 ~ 2 Comments

Capacity Planning and Monitoring for VMware Virtual Infrastructure

If you have a growing Virtual Infrastructure, like most – it has out grown the monitoring tools integrated into VirtualCenter. VC has very limited capability to help resource managers and NOCs monitor and manage virtuals and this post will identify a few short falls. There are actually three categories this post could be broken up into, [...]

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