I came across this scenario:The windows task manager shows the cpu of the vm pegged at 100%.The vmware performance monitor says that the vm is only using 5-60% of the CPU.Given the vm's pegged performance, I am definitely seeing that there is a disparity among the two graphs."suffice it to say that if you are looking for an absolute view of how CPUs are being used, you cannot trust the guest’s view of itself"From <http://blog.logicmonitor.com/2013/02/25/a-tale-of-two-metrics-windows-cpu-or-vcenter-vm-cpu/> Meaning, that while the guest...
Monday, October 14, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Add drivers to driver store in windows Creating a win 7 image.Have some drivers I wanted to add to the driver store.Can not just paste them into %SystemRoot%\INF because Windows deletes it.How can you add it?use PNPUTIL.exe which is included as part of win7.example : pnputil /a c:lenovo\NICDriver.inf would add a nic driver.What if you have many drivers??That is kind of not fun if you need to add the drivers for 5 different models.You can place them in one directory, and then use this script that Alexander Stein placed on github.Thanks...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
While you can get the uuid of your hosts 1 by 1https://<HOST>/mob/?moid=ha%2dhost&doPath=hardware%2esystemInfobut when you have a lot of hosts that is a little time consuming to do that.This script from http://thephuck.com/scripts/script-to-pull-host-uuid-for-vmware-powercli/has the ability to get all the uuids from the hosts you have.Thanks Luke Huckaba!Worked great Usage is like this:Get-VMHostUUID.ps1 -vmhosts ("host1","host2","host3")orGet-VMHostUUID.ps1 -vc vcenterserver -container cluster1/folder/dc/etcparam([string]$vc = "vc",...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
What is it:Visualesxtop, a new fling that gives you a graphical way to view esxtop data Get it herehttp://labs.vmware.com/flings/visualesxtopProblems Starting:Make sure Java is installedIf installed:If you are getting an error where the bat file wont run like so:'Java’ is not recognized as an interna1 or external command, Operable program or batch file. Then edit the bat file to enter the path directly to java;Like so:"C:\Program Files...
Thursday, June 27, 2013
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/WP-VMW-Nexus1000v-vSphere4-Deployment.pdfMy notes on the white paper above: using it for review and jotting down things I find important.Please read the white paper for concepts I may gloss over since it’s a review for myself.The reason I am going over this is even though vsphere5.x Is out, the concepts are probably relevent.Design guidance for implementing 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking with VMware vSphere 4.0 (including VMware ESXi 4.0 and ESX 4.0 and associated updates) in a Cisco network environment.Design...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/dmz-vsphere-nexus-wp.pdfMy notes on the white paper above: using it for review and jotting down things I find important.Please read the white paper for concepts I may gloss over since it’s a review for myself.The reason I am going over this is even though vsphere5.x Is out, the concepts are probably relevant.This document discusses DMZ visualization and security.DMZ VirtualizationThe virtualized DMZ takes advantage of virtualization technologies to reduce the DMZ footprint, (fig1 vs fig2)Security...
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