Your VMUG needs you

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Your VMUG needs you The Nordic VMUG event is soon to beheld and for this your community needs YOU – After two VMworld events were vendors and vmware guys and gals havde done there best to make you fork money at them, it time to stop selling and start learning, and nothing is better than hearing what the community is doing with this cool tech. We want to hear from you, what have you been up to? – Virtualized AIX with your own real time compiler, build some thing awesome you just have share, or are you just a lone sys […]

#VMUGDK Log Insight presentation

Posted Michael Ryom1 CommentPosted in Log Insight

Today I did a VMUG session at the Danish VMUG event in AArhus – Back to the roots – This event were all community session. Meaning it wasn’t the posh likes of Duncan Epping, Cormac Hogan etc (Name your favorite posh VMware tech guru blogger / Tech marketing guy / Action Figures). That were presenting but regular customers – Some maybe #vExperts   So below you will see my presentation togetter with the videos I made for the Log Insight presentation at #VMUGDK – Hope it’s still some what use full even though I’m not there speaking over the presentation/Video. […]

HP Onboard Administrator LDAP Authentication

Posted Michael Ryom4 CommentsPosted in Hardware

HP Onboard Administrator LDAP Authentication This is a bit out side of what I normally write about, but it still deals with IT and to be honest I used quite some time figuring out how this work, as the documentation is extremely poor in this regard. But once you have figured out, what the developer thought was a smart way to implement this, it is actually quite simple – Not brilliant, but it works and for most cases very well.   Getting started with HP OA LDAP Authentication Default HP OA comes with a default Administrator account (yes its case […]

Validate SSL expiration date

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Every x years ssl certificates need to be renew for the vSphere infrastructure. So in order to do this I needed a way to validate SSL expiration date. Well the thing is I don’t know an automated way of doing this. I started by look around google to see if there wasn’t a smart guy who had already done something like this and it turns out there is, so please put your hands together for Vadims Podans and is blog post Test remote web server SSL certificate. With credit due, I’ll continue with my small contribution. How to validate SSL expiration date What Vadims have […]

Log Insight Snapshot Content Pack 1.1

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Good news everybody! There’s a new version of my Log Insight Snapshot Content Pack, it’s only a minor update, but non the less is thought I’ll share it with you all. So whats new – I’ve added a COW Heap depletion dashboard to help troubleshoot.   If you wanna know more about COW heap, please check my blog post about it.   You can download the uploaded Log Insight Snapshot Content Pack 1.1 here    

Doing COW math – Copy on write snapshot heap

Posted Michael Ryom3 CommentsPosted in VMware

Been some time since the last blog post and I apologize for that, but it only because off happy circumstances, I became a father, for the second time to a healthy boy 🙂 So I have had some time off to be with my family. Well with that sorted lets move on to the topic of the day. Doing COW math Hope you have been doing your VMware COWs math… And here I’m of course talking about copy on write snapshots. Some time ago now got a few service request stating the some services were down for some VMs (50+). There were nothing obvious wrong, […]

Maximum vDS ports per host

Posted Michael Ryom2 CommentsPosted in Script

First of all its been awhile since my laste port and for that I apologize. Maximum vDS ports per host Some settings are just left default, maybe because it seems to be of no use/harm, maybe because it seems sufficient and some are just left default as the consequences of changing them are unknown. Well I guess this is just one of the problems where all of the above fit right in. You may know that there are some limitations of whats supported by different vSphere components – and this is were the problem in question comes to play. When you […]

Correcting Multi Path Policy

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in Script, VMware

Correcting Multi Path Policy(MPP), is some thing i had to do recently – The story goes… The storage team had brought in a new storage array/vendor and started making datastores from that, now a few hundred datastores later, someone noticed that some path where highly utilized while others again was hardly used at all. So after looking into this, it was desisted to change the Multi Path Policy to RoundRobin as per the vendors recommendations and best practices. While making the script for this I noticed that some local disks were already set to RoundRobin where they were suppose to be […]

Log Insight Snapshot Content Pack

Posted Michael Ryom1 CommentPosted in Log Insight

I’ve been running Log insight for some time now, first as part of the beta and then continued after it became GA, the last upgrade to 1.5 GA was a real pleaser. This tool has fast become one of my favorite VMware products, the insight you get into your environment is astonishing. This is the first tool I login to every morgning, way before vSphere client, vCops or even mail. So how can that be… Hopefully what comes next will make you understand what I mean   Log Insight Snapshot Content Pack So I’ve had some time to work with Log insight, […]

Log insight – vCOPS Content Pack

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in Log Insight, Script, Vcops, vRops

Log insight – vCOPS Content Pack Log insight’s vCOPS Content Pack was released together with vCops 5.8, this content pack lets you get the same great insight into your vCops environment as log insight provides for your vSphere environment. There are three tasks to setting up vCops content pack for vCenter Log insight. Downloading and installing the content pack. Setting up vCops to syslog to Log insight. Connecting Log insight to vCops, so that Log insight can send alerts to vCops. Downloading and installing vCops content pack for Log insight If you have not already downloaded the content pack, lets start […]