During a health check of a vSphere environment i notices dropped packets on several VMs. In ESXTOP the %DRPRX value showed dropped receive packets on several VMs. In the screenshot an example: The customer uses vSphere 4.0 build 244038. All the VMs that experiencing the dropped packets problem were …
Continue ReadingThe new vSphere 4.1 release offers a lot of new cool features and enhancements. Here’s a list What’s New in vSphere 4.1. When upgrading to vSphere 4.1 there are a couple of things to think about before starting: Make sure your systems and components are supported, check the Hardware Compatibility …
Continue ReadingVMware HealthAnalyzer automates the collection of VMware Infrastructure or VMware vSphere™ inventory, configuration and utilization data, analyzes data and recommends grades, and generates a report card that presents observations, findings and data categorized by VMware Health Check best practices. …
Continue ReadingVMware View & ThinApp Presented by David Davis covers the following topics: View Overview and introduction Installing VMware View 4 Deploying Virtual Desktops with View Automated Virtual Desktop Deployment with View Pools Adding a Terminal Services Pool in View Understanding View Composer Linked …
Continue ReadingVMware released last week the desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC). When validating VMware View designs it is important to simulate real world usage as closely as possible. The Desktop Reference Architecture Workload SImulator (RAWC) can be used to simulate a user workload in a …
Continue ReadingThe long awaited VMware View with the PCoIP protocol has landed and is available for download. VMware View 4.0 includes the following new features: VMware View with PCoIP – PCoIP provides an optimized desktop experience for the delivery of the entire desktop environment including applications, …
Continue ReadingToday when i woke up there where a lot of VMware updates available (to much to handle for one day 🙂 ). I did an upgrade of my lab environment, it went smooth with any issues. VMware did a great job with the new improvements! Here’s a list of improvements with some screenshots: VMware ESX 4 Update 1 …
Continue ReadingVMware vCenter version Cluster information (Updated) VMware statistics (New) List the active Snapshots CDROMs connected to VMs Floppy drives connected to VMs Datastores Information such as free space RDM information (New) VM information such as VMware tools version, processor and memory limits VMs …
Continue ReadingA couple of weeks ago my desktop PC died, so my girlfriend could not read there e-mail. I decide to turn my OLD VMware ESX test server into a Microsoft Vista workstation and buy a new whitebox. After searching the internet and comparing components, I found the following configuration: CoolerMaster …
Continue ReadingThe Healthcheck PowerShell script I wrote for the VMware PowerShell scripting contest is on 6th position on the “Top 10 PowerShell scripts that VMware administrators should use” from Eric Siebert. Eric is the administrator of the site VMware-land.com that has the largest VMware link …
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