I have been studying for my VCAP-DCD and I must say the amount of material referenced for the exam can seem overwhelming. While going through…
More vStuff: vHWV
It has taken longer than I had expected to post more vStuff, but I am happy to announce that vHWV has been posted! What is…
Cisco MDS CPU utilization of 100 percent seen in certain situations
For those of you who read the MDS 9000 NX-OS update, 5.0(7), release notes, you may have noticed that the title of this post is…
Maximum number of VMkernel interfaces per ESXi host
I received was asked what the maximum number of VMkernel interfaces per ESXi host was. Off the top of my head I was not aware…
EMC FLARE <32 RAID 6 Implementation
Over the last few weeks I was engaged in an issue where all VMs backed by a NFS datastore in an environment experienced several seconds…
BUG ALERT: OVF Tool 3.0.1 on Mac
So I have been doing a lot of work with OVF Tool as of late. In addition, I have been trying hard to ensure that…
Plug-ins are disabled in the vSphere Client
I recently connected to a vSphere 5.1 environment using an old Windows Fusion VM. I was attempting to check the hardware status and I noticed…
BUG ALERT: UCS FNIC Driver 1.5.0.8 + ESXi 5.x = PSODs
If you are running UCS hardware with ESXi then you should be using custom ENIC/FNIC drivers as specified on the Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix.…
Likewise / PowerBroker: DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET
If you use PowerBroker, formerly known as Likewise, then you may have experienced the following error message when performing the domainjoin-cli command: DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET. If you…