Recently I was required to gather some vSphere 4 host information for a documentation project. Some of this information is available and exportable from the vSphere 4 client but it’s not all conveniently in the same place. I found it easier to gather this information via vSphere’s PowerCLI rather than endlessly clicking around the interface. [...]
I’ve never been a Facebook user, primarily because of the onerous privacy controls and concerns over Facebooks privacy game of kick the can. Google+ seems to have resolved my concerns in an elegant way allowing me to communicate with the people I want to, in the way I want to. I’m able to delete all [...]
While looking for VMA 4.1 documentation I came across this bit of time travel. VMA version 5.0 with a realease date of August 5 2011, which is just about 2 months from now. If VMA is being upgraded to 5, I would suspect vSphere would also see an update around that same time. I should [...]
I ran into an issue with VMWare converter hanging while in block conversion mode while trying to virtualize an instance of Microsoft SQL server. It turns out that it’s a known issue in version 4.3 of the standalone converter. My conversion was hanging due to the cluster size of some disks being larger than 4k. [...]
I recently came across a server that did not have iostat available and I needed estimate when a certain file copy would complete. In order to make a rough estimate I wrote the following one-liner to summarize the available space in the current working directory, wait a minute and then sum again, subtracting the smaller [...]