ESXi host disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault configuration using PowerCLI
I have been asked several times how to automatically configure the ESXi host file “settings” to include the configuration: disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault=”true” I will not explain the purpose of this...
View ArticleESXi host advanced configuration using PowerCLI
I was recently asked by one customer to verify the existing Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Filter configuration for their 75+ ESXi hosts and if needed (not activated) change the default configuration...
View ArticleConfigure and report the ESXi host TSM-SSH service using PowerCLI
A customer contacted me the other day asking for a way to verify if the ESXi host TSM-SSH (SSH) service is running, and if so: Turn off the TSM-SSH service. Send an e-mail report including all ESXi...
View ArticleESXi host HBA priority
A few days back i had an interesting chat with one of my customers. I’ll provide some background information before going in to the actual problem statement. Background information. The vSphere setup...
View ArticleESXi host VMkernel.Boot.terminateVMOnPDL configuration using PowerCLI
I have already written a blog post about how you can configure the ESXi host setting disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault in vSphere version 5.1. You can find that blog post here. I have received a couple of...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 U1 Purple Screen of Death
A few days ago i was contacted by a customer who was running vSphere 5.1 U1 which is about one year old. For various reasons they have not yet upgraded to a later version of vSphere 5.1 or to vSphere...
View ArticlevSphere VM vCPU to ESXi host CPU core allocation
There has been quite a lot of discussion regarding resource utilization and resource allocation in vSphere environments lately. There are a lot of tools around doing analysis (some better than others)...
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