A small sample of my work and shared notes
I have an ESXi VMWare server that has had a couple of purple screens now. Unfortunately, the default is to sit there and wait for some user interaction. This happens to require knowing about it, then a 30 minute drive Continue reading Automatically Reboot VMWare ESXi Exception 14 Purple Screen
*Note* Patches can be found by going to the Patch Portal. http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal Recently after upgrading from VMWare 4.1 to VMWare ESXi 5.5 I ran into an issue with a Windows 2008 VPN server getting the following error message. PPTP VPN Continue reading How to Patch VMWare ESXi 5.5 from Command Line
I keep running into an issue where VMTools will display a status of “not running” after rebooting some machines too fast, say after a Windows Update or just because they feel like it. One fix is to simply reboot Continue reading Restart VMware Tools on Window’s Virtual Machines
I have recently ran across a setting in VMWare ESXi 4.1 that has improved total IOP’s across all my Virtual Machines (VM’s). Here is a CrystalDiskMark Result Before Now after. I’m not sure why the 512K reads have actually dropped, Continue reading VMWare 4.1 ISCSI Performance – Setting iops=1
Symptom ESX 4.1 is incredibly slow to reboot. Problem ESXi is trying to load all of the ISCSI paths during bootup and might not be able to do so right away. Resolution To fix this, change the Scsi.UWConflictRetries from 5000 to Continue reading ESXi 4.1 Slow Boot – SCSI Timeout Setting