After such great luck with the Windows version, I found a few things. First was that resxtop was not included in the Windows bundle. Which lead me to the second: /tmp/vmware-rcli-distrib$ ./vmware-install.pl This version of "VMware VI Remote Command Line Tools" is incompatible with this operating system. Please install the "x86_64" version of this program
-> Continue reading VMware RCLI – Where Is resxtop For Windows? x64 Linux?
Mr. Epping over at Yellow-Bricks posted this on VMFS3 Heap Size. I’m reposting here for future reference. I was talking to a fellow consultant today. He ran into the following error messages at one of his customer sites: vmkernel: 8:18:59:58.640 cpu2:1410)WARNING: Heap: 1370: Heap_Align(vmfs3, 4096/4096 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0×8fdbd0 vmkernel: 8:18:59:58.640 cpu2:1410)WARNING: Heap:
-> Continue reading Heaping Heaps! – ESX Heap Size
Tom Howarth from PlanetVM turned me on to a great series of posts by Ed Haletky on how to manage different combinations of NIC’s in VMware ESX: Blue Gears – 2 Physical NICs with VMware ESX Blue Gears – 3 Physical NICs with VMware ESX Blue Gears – 4 Physical NICs with VMware ESX Blue
-> Continue reading Managing NIC’s in ESX
From Yellow-Bricks: Peter posted a VCDX Study Guide that covers most the topics on the VCDX Enterprise Exam Blueprint. NICE!
Since my first few posts on this got a bit of attention, I thought I’d add some more to this. In today’s post we’ll cover adding or deleting a route, and setting a default route. I’ve got requests for others that will keep the next few weeks worth of VIX posts busy. We’ll cover this
-> Continue reading VIXated with VMware’s VIX
I’m still not sure I get it, but I’m Twittering. and can be followed here
Wait, what? Used to be you could only get these as iso’s embedded with what ever release/version of VMware you were working with. Now, their available for download from the VMware site! On this site, you will be able to search, browse and download VMware Tools software packaged in the native package format (e.g. rpm,
-> Continue reading Downloadable VMware Tools?
get-datacenter MyVC | get-vm | Get-NetworkAdapter | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*1"} | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName NotThatNetwork -Confirm:$false So, say you provision all of your VM’s on one host, with one set of networks, that is completely removed from the remainder of your infrastructure. You then Cold-Migrate the new VM’s to their new homes. You now
-> Continue reading 1 Day Left – The Most Awesome PowerShell One-Liner in the History of PowerShell One-Liners!
Like… this is almost as cool as the RC Battle Bots my son and I got for Christmas. It’s the VMware Reference Architecture. This reference architecture kit is comprised of four distinct papers written by VMware and our supporting partners to serve as a guide to assist in the early phases of planning, design and
-> Continue reading Now This Is Cool – VMware Reference Architecture
Ok maybe not since sliced bread, but at least since the advent of server slicing. The VMware HCL now comes to us entirely online, and in a searchable format! WOOT! Get to it from here! RSS Feeds of the HCL here! From the VMTN Blog and VM/ETC