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PowerCLI: How many VMs on your Datastores ?
How many VMs do you have on your datastores ? Do you know ? should you care ? Yes, you should care, you should care because over saturated datastores can cause issues with IO and also cause scsi locks if you are using fibre. So what is the sweet spot ? Unfortunately its one of [...]
Script List – Finally !
I have had a link there for a while, you know the one at the top of this page that said ‘Script List’ but didn’t actually contain anything. Well I finally managed to get some time to fill out a page with a list of all the scripts I have created so far, please take [...]
Exchange Audit
I received a comment the other day on my Server/Workstation audit script from someone saying they had modified my script to audit Exchange 2003. As you can imagine, I was intrigued and asked to have a look, I cant tell you how much it pleases me that people are able to take the scripts I [...]
VMware Virtual User Group
I was contacted and asked if it was a good idea to start a VMware Virtual User Group, I think this is a great idea and it would compliment the already existing physical user groups and podcasts which exist. To get an idea of the kind of format please visit Marco Shaw’s site and watch [...]
Virtu-Al goes mobile
I have now optimised my site for mobile viewing, if you use a mobile browser this blog should now be much easier to read. All your favourite VI Toolkit goodness in the palm of your hand Any issues please let me know !
Veeam Backup and FastSCP
I was looking for a way to transfer some VM’s from a Linux VMware 2.0 server to a VMware ESX 3.5 server as fast as possible to minimise the amount of downtime. As these files would need to be copied to a windows share first for the converter to import i started with WinSCP, when [...]
New Blog layout
OK, I have finally stopped messing with my new blog layout so hopefully everyone will agree it looks better. Any comments or suggestions please do not hesitate to leave me a comment below.
VMware London User group
Ok, so I attended my first VMware London User Group today, not strictly sure that I should have attended seeing as I’m from deepest darkest Wiltshire (I can put a fake cockney accent on pretty well govna). Im now typing this on the train home and was left with a few questions…… Was it worth [...]
Free ESX Secuirty Compliance Checker
Compliance Checker is a free, downloadable tool that provides a real time compliance check for multiple VMware ESX host servers at a time. This product is a robust utility providing detailed compliance checks against both the VMware Hardening Guidelines and the CIS benchmarks for ESX. Unlike other free tools in the market, Compliance Checker is [...]
IP’08 & VM’08 – Day 1 Review
Day 1 sounded good, can’t wait to attend tomorrow…. Earls Court 2 buzzed with activity from the moment the enthusiastic voice announced that IP’08 and the new VM’08 were open for business. It was standing room only in the seminars and keynotes, particularly for the virtualisation sessions – there was a palpable sense of anticipation [...]
