Category Archives: Virtualization

I recently noticed a link to a very interesting article on Twitter: Find ESXi Installation Date — http://vcdx56.com/2016/01/05/find-esxi-installation-date/. These steps are straight forward and show how to calculate the original ESXi install date, looking at the first section of the … Continue reading →

Recently @RuddyVCP (Blog | Twitter) and I worked on building a home lab to give away at the 2015 Indianapolis VMUG UserCon. The idea was we’d build a three node VSAN cluster using Intel NUC miniature PCs each with a … Continue reading →

I was recently asked to help move VMs from one datastore backed by traditional spinning disk to an EMC XtremIO datastore.  I was really excited as I wanted to see the power of an all flash array. As a best … Continue reading →

A few weeks back I wanted to verify some path counts per LUN. This is typically pretty easy and something that can be written as a one liner using standard PowerCLI cmdlets as such: Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun | Get-ScsiLunPath However, … Continue reading →

I’ve been troubleshooting a specific problem where storage latency jumps very high during very short periods of time, usually in the late evening/very early morning hours. The latency is very bad, sometimes in the 2,000ms+ neighborhood. My storage guys see … Continue reading →