I was recently tasked with adding 16 datastores to a new vSphere 5.5 cluster.  In this environment, we use EMC VMAX fibre channel storage on the backend. I wanted to post this example PowerCLI code in hopes someone else might find it useful.  I have previously found other examples online, however, they were geared towards […]

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I was fortunate enough to have my employer send me to the AWS re:Invent conference that took place in Las Vegas.  This was my first time attending this conference and I really had no idea what to expect.  I quickly learned that this was only the second […]

I am fortunate enough to be attending the AWS re:Invent conference this year.  This is only the second time that Amazon has put on this conference (I did not attend year 1). I will use this page as a placeholder for my conference schedule.  Stay tuned for new posts covering the conference’s content!

While attending VMworld this past year, I recorded a video that talks about the many benefits of VMware certification.  The main message I would like viewers to walk away with is that you always need to believe in yourself.  Be your own coach.  Give yourself that kick in the behind you might need to continue […]

It looks like VMware released version 5.5 of their free vCenter Converter Standalone product.  This is an indispensible tool for anyone doing P2Vs, V2Vs, etc. From the “What’s New” section of the release notes: The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 includes the following new functionality: Support for virtual machine hardware version 10 (62TB disks, virtual […]

While setting up a new vSphere 5.5 environment, I believe I have stumbled across a bug in PowerCLI 5.5.  I use Auto Deploy in this particular environment and I hit this issue while trying to set up bulk licensing. For those of you that have not heard of bulk licensing, it is a feature you […]

There has been a lot of talk in the VMware Communities regarding a shortcoming in management techniques for users of the free version of ESXi 5.5, as well as users trying to manage an ESXi host directly in a vSphere environment. The problem is that the traditional C# based client cannot edit the settings for […]

I recently encountered some strange I/O issues with guests running on ESXi 5.0 U2 in a Cisco UCS environment that I have inherited.  While investigating the root cause it was brought to our attention that some of our UCS drivers might be out of date.  According to Cisco’s compatibility matrix (found here), we should be […]