Tag: esxi

DSvClient, ESXi, VMware, vSAN

DSvClient – New patch downloading tool for vCenter

  Streamlining VMware Update Management with DSvClient: A vExpert’s tool In the ever-evolving landscape of VMware infrastructure management, keeping components updated while ensuring consistency across environments has become increasingly complex. As a VMware administrator, you’re likely familiar with the challenges of managing patches, updates, and ensuring file integrity across multiple environments. Today, I’d like to introduce you to a powerful utility that I have created. I started this project for fun while experimenting with Rust during last year’s Christmas holiday. It has since evolved into an application that I believe has multiple applications in enterprise environments. What Is DSvClient? DSvClient […]

Hardware

Part 2: SuperMicro SuperServer E300-8D deep dive

 TOC Part 1: The NUC killer: SuperMicro SuperServer E300-8D Part 2: SuperMicro SuperServer E300-8D deep dive Part 3: SuperMicro SuperServer E300-8D 2 years later Part 2: SuperMicro SuperServer E300-8D deep dive In the last post, I wrote about the SuperMicro SuperServer E300-8D in comparison to Intels NUC series, but also covered networking and the reason for me buying into SuperMicro over NUC. In this next part of the serie. I am going to dig into the E300-8D’s technical specifications, show case its good and bad sides and talk about noise and power consumption. A closer look at E300-8D from the […]

ESXi, Log Insight, Script, vRops

ESXi IOStats – vmkmgmt_keyval

Just wanted to do a short post about vmkmgmt_keyval, as I think most admins only uses this tool for getting HBA driver/firmware versions, but you get so much more than just that. There is different forms of statistics in there, per target, per lun and block size. So first what is vmkmgmt_keyval ? vmkmgmt_keyval is an ESXi command which can be executed from ESXi’s direct console user interface (DCUI) or via SSH, in both examples you get access to ESXi Shell. The way I’m going to use vmkmgmt_keyval, is with an “-a”, after, just like in the example here: “/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval […]

VMware

vMotion fails at 14%

I was in the process of upgrading all the hosts in a cluster, I was down to the last two in the cluster, when the last few VMs failed during the vMotion. vMotion fails at 14%, operation timed out. I tried a few things but no matter what the VMs failed. So I had two host, host A had one VM left on it and host B had four VMs. Both of them started out with having about twenty VMs each on them. So what had happen… Had vMotion so how “broken down”, was there something wrong on the network, […]