This guide helps to do a check of VSAN requirements before and after deployment. VMware engineers used this document internally first in order to validate the VSAN requirements before hitting the “enable VSAN” checkbox. It allows some head scratching on “why am I getting this error?”. If you go through and successfully validate all the […]
Free Tool for Nested ESXi Labs – ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter
There is a free utility called ESXi MAC learning dvFilter released by VMware Labs last week. This utility is provided as a VIB and installs on the physical ESXi host, not on the virtual ESXi hosts. I learned about it by reading posts from William Lam and Andreas Peetz. ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter is kind of […]
TOP 10 Free Sessions from VMworld 2014 US are Online – Check it out
TOP 10 Free Sessions from VMworld 2014 US. There are new sessions from VMworld US 2014 available for free. There is a TOP 10 of them available. (in fact there is 18 of them). It’s a good way to allow to people which were not able to attend to still have something to watch until […]
VMware Virtual SAN Sizing Tool
There is new Online utility which assists in design considerations and automates the storage sizing calculations for VSAN clusters. The utility gathers requirements in order to give you as an output a full detailed specifications. The process is done in two steps: Step1: You need to enter your VMs characteristics – size of VMDK, number of […]
How-to Monitor VMware VSAN with a VMware VSAN Observer – New PDF
There is a new whitepaper provide by VMware which teaches you how to monitor VMware VSAN with a VMware VSAN Observer. It’s a utility which is baked in with vCenter server (since 5.5 U1) and which allows to dig deep into VSAN’s performance, see the IOPS, latency, Outstanding I/Os and congestions etc… It’s quite complex […]
3 Free Videos To Get Started With PowerShell
Veeam has created Free Videos to get started with Powershell. Those videos which are 4 h in total helps to get started with PowerShell. Each video provides not only the video, but also link to presentation (PDF), the PowerShell code used in those videos and cheat sheet. It’s an excellent way to get started. There is also […]
Free Tool Friday – File Menu Tools
File Menu Tools is free utility (or rather set of utilities) which installs on x86 or x64 systems. The goal of this free application is to ease the pain (as usually) and to make the life of th admin easier. We all seek to make our lives easier, right? Than read on because this utility […]
Free Task Manager for Hyper-V By Veeam
Windows task manager is usually used for monitoring of different process and applications running on Windows servers. However, when Hyper-V role is installed and some VMs running, the task manager don’t show the CPU utilization of those individual VMs. Veeam has released a small utility called Task Manager for Hyper-V which just allows to monitor […]
SyncBackFree – Backup and Replication Freeware
An easy topic today. I’d like to share this post, because I found a product with a good value. It’s not targeted towards virtualised environments in any way, but rather I’d say it might be a good choice for an average admin’s toolbox. SyncBack Free is Backup and Replication Freeware which is used as an in guest utility […]
How-to use ViewDbChk – Free Utility for Horizon View Databases
ViewDbChk is new free utility from VMware Labs which allows to fix VMware Horizon View database in case you’re experiencing provisioning errors. The creator of ViewDbChk is Griff James. The utility allows to clean the DB from orphaned Horizon View desktop pools or individual desktops. If an admin has deleted a VM from within the vSphere […]
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