Here is a little memento we forgot to post a while ago, in order to get name and IP of all ESXi servers. There are several ways of getting these data, you can use only vSphere SDK properties: Or you … Continue reading
Small memento following an internal question about extending the default maximum number of NFS volumes on ESXi (default is 8). We found the KB dealing with this issue about modifying ESXi advanced settings (KB2239) : NFS.MaxVolumes: Limits the number of … Continue reading
For our new memento post, during a fully messed-up mastered maintenance operation from our beloved network team, we had access problems on our platform within and between VLANs which had the effect that some ESXi servers could not communicate with each other randomly … In order to avoid all vMotion tasks going … Continue reading
When converting a physical server to a virtual machine (typically a P2V operation with VMware Converter), a big issue is that network informations are lost (due to TCP stack reset because the system saw the network card as new one). In order to avoid this, we’ve used to do … Continue reading
Here is another memento which was very handy during a vCenter plugin developpement (there’ll be another post during week dealing with it), here is some base64 convert from string : In order to convert a string to base64, you just … Continue reading