This one is a quick one, mostly because I feel like maybe I’ve just realized something that’s been obvious to the rest of the world. I used to have vSAN set up in my lab environment and just found that it was a lot of hassle to run on (somewhat) outdat …

A couple of weeks ago I had a power failure in my place and unfortunately my vSphere cluster is not on UPS power (got it hooked up to 220v and haven’t had a chance to purchase a 220v UPS yet). Most of my machines came back fine but one of my machines w …

A short list of NFS commands for VMware, might come in handy someday. List: esxcfg-nas -l Delete: esxcfg-nas -d <name of nfs mount> Mount: esxcfg-nas -a -o <name or ip of storage appliance> -s /nfs2 <name of nfs mount>

I have recently come across an interesting discovery, which can be attributed to my lack of a large amount of expertise or experience in VMware ESX and ESXi.  By default, the block size for new data stores is 1MB, which allows for a maximum VHD si …

A quick command to rip a CD or DVD with VMware ESX or VSphere. dd if=/dev/cdrom of={path}/{name of iso}