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Showing posts with label ESXi. Show all posts

Showing posts with label ESXi. Show all posts

Sunday, January 28, 2018

ESXi - optical diagnostic information from VMNIC

I have been asked by one customer how to get optical diagnostic information from NIC which is Intel X540 10GbE Controller. NIC was identifi...

Monday, August 14, 2017

Remote text based console to ESXi over IPMI SOL

I have just bought another server into my home lab. I already have 6 Intel NUCs but a lot of RAM is needed for full VMware SDDC with all pr...

Sunday, April 02, 2017

ESXi Host Power Management

I have just listened to Qasim Ali's VMworld session " INF8465 - Extreme Performance Series: Power Management's Impact on Perf...

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues for ESX / ESXi

ESXi performance are exposing to administrators through vSphere Clients. You can see real-time performance statistics which are collected ...

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

ESXi sched-stats command

Frank Denneman has shared on twitter very interesting ESXi command to show CPU scheduling statistics and information. @FrankDenneman tw...

Sunday, July 24, 2016

ESXi PSOD and HeartbeatPanicTimeout

A Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) is a diagnostic screen with white type on a purple background that is displayed when the VMkernel of an ES...

Monday, June 27, 2016

ESXi boot mode - UEFI or BIOS

Legacy BIOS bootstrapping along with a master boot record (MBR) is uses with x86 compatible systems for ages. The concept of MBRs was publi...

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

ESXi : How to mask storage device causing some issues

I have heard about the issue with ESXi 6 Update 2 and HP 3PAR storage where VVOLs are enabled. I have been told that the issue is caused by...

Thursday, May 19, 2016

ESXi 6 - manual partitioning for multiple VMFS filesystems on single disk device

I have to test SDRS initial placement exact behavior (blog post here ) therefore I need multiple VMFS datastores to form an Datastore Clust...

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