2016-10-02 00:00
VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) are a vSphere feature which allow for storing VM virtual disks and other files natively on the storage system (instead of on VMFS datastores created on top of… Read More
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2015-07-18 00:00
Docker client for Windows was released a few months ago, and recently I installed it inside of a Windows 10 CTP machine and tested it against a CentOS 7 serving as a Docker host.
For the in… Read More
2015-06-22 00:00
I have recently noticed that LUNs created on NetApp cDOT storage systems by default don’t support space reclamation (aka SCSI UNMAP) which is a part of the vSphere VAAI Thin Provisioni… Read More
2015-04-06 00:00
The ELK stack is a commonly used open source solution for log collection and analysis. It consists of three components:
Elasticsearch - distributed search engine, responsible for stori… Read More
2015-03-21 00:00
Since vSphere 5.0U1, VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) uses vPostgres - VMware flavored PostgreSQL as the embedded database. This post describes how to connect to the VCSA vPostgres ser… Read More
2015-03-12 00:00
CoreOS is a minimal Linux distribution created to serve as a host for running Docker containers. Here’s some info on how to try it out on vSphere.
Since stable release 557, CoreOS com… Read More
2015-02-06 00:00
Just wanted to share a great tip by Ather Beg on how to display all of ESXi host’s advanced settings which are different than the default values via ESXCLI:
esxcli system settings adv… Read More
2015-01-24 00:00
A few months ago, VMware published information about a pretty catastrophic vSphere bug described in VMware KB 2090639. TLDR version: if you have expanded a CBT-enabled .vmdk past any 128GB b… Read More
2015-01-15 00:00
A limited set of familiar POSIX-like tools and utilities is available on ESXi, courtesy of the busybox executable:
~ # /usr/lib/vmware/busybox/bin/busybox --list
[
[[
addgroup
adduser
ash
a… Read More
2014-11-28 00:00
A way to search through available ESXCLI commands from ESXi Shell, vCLI or vMA:
esxcli esxcli command list | grep <keyword>
E.g.
~ # esxcli esxcli command list | grep snmp
system… Read More
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