Author Archives: Barrie

Configuring iSCSI with ESXCLI in vSphere 5.0

Posted on September 11, 2011

This is mostly me learning my way around some of the new namespaces in esxcli as part of vSphere 5.0 If you want to know what’s new in esxcli in vSphere 5.0, please read these two posts from Duncan Epping … Continue reading →

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Nice Changes to Maintenance Mode settings in vSphere 5

Posted on August 28, 2011

There have been some small but very useful changes to the feature set of Maintenance Mode in vSphere Update Manager 5. It’s easier to see when comparing screenshots of a vSphere 4.1 environment to a vSphere 5.0 setup. Here are the settings presented … Continue reading →

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VMware View Desktop boot-storm on SSD – illustrated

Posted on August 16, 2011

Just a couple of screen shots illustrating what happens with I/O when 30+ Windows XP virtual desktops boot at the same time on local SSD storage. The hardware used was an 8-core (16 thread) Nehalem 5520 IBM x3650 M2 rack server, 64GB RAM … Continue reading →

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Running Veeam Backup 5 in a VM

Posted on February 2, 2011

One of the best features of most modern virtual backup products, is that they support the vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP), including change block tracking (CBT) and hot-add. More here on VADP: kb.vmware.com/kb/1021175 To take advantage of the vSphere hot-add ability, the … Continue reading →

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Using vCLI (vMA) or PowerCLI for ESXi server maintenance mode

Posted on January 12, 2011

Just a quick post (mostly for documentations sake) to highlight on how to take your ESX(i) boxes into and out of maintenance mode using either VMware vCLI/vMA or VMware PowerCLI (Powershell) This can be handy if you have a whole bunch … Continue reading →

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