Have you ever wanted to check your Network throughput between your ESX Hosts? or even between VM’s? Well I needed to do this, and I couldn’t find any straight forward how-to’s.
Having been pointed in the direction of a simple application called IPerf by Simon Gallagher I opted to use the Windows version. I’m not great with Linux, and as this is an open source application, documentation is a little hard to come by. So for me, this post is also to remind me how on IPerf works should i need to use it again.
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This morning i received this in my Email
You may or may not know that the next London VMware Usergroup meeting is being held next Tuesday 24th November. I again will be in attendance but this time i assure you i won’t be wearing my bright pink t-shirt, so need to bring your sunglasses.
Here is the info about the Usegroup meeting for anyone who doesn’t know about it.
Our meeting will be held at the Thames Suite, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP, +44 (0)20 7248 4444. The nearest tube station is Mansion House, location information is available here. Reception is from 1230 for a prompt 1pm start, to finish around 5pm. Our agenda is not final at the moment, but looks something like this:
1100 – 1200 (Optional) Powershell workshop – Jonathan Medd (get-tovenue | early) to cover PS one-liner solutions and new VI toolkit functionality
12:30 – 13:00 Arrive & Refreshments
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome & News – Alaric Davies
13:20 – 14:05 Sponsor Presentation – Symantec
14:10 – 14:55 ESX Home Lab/White box setup – Simon Gallagher & Simon Seagrave
15:00 – 15:20 Refreshment Break
15:25 – 16:00 Session 3 – vSphere topics, Guy Chapman, Mike Laverick, audience
16:05 – 16:45 Session 4 – vSphere topics, Alaric Davies, Mike Laverick, audience
16:45 – 17:00 Close
17:00 – Pub
I look forward to catching up with you all there.
After doing a range of Memory testing and analysis on a group of Vmware Virtual Machines, the subject of the “Unlimited” Memory/CPU tick box was brought up.
When Resource Allocation’s are setup on a VM there is the option of selecting an Unlimited Limit. It seems as though some people misunderstand exactly what that tick box means.
So i will do my best to try and explain exactly “Unlimited” means.
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Have you ever gazed longingly into the eyes of vCenter 4 Performance Charts and thought to yourself “What the hell does that Counter mean??”.
Since the version 4 upgrade, vCenter now has an even larger amount of Performance Counters for you to use at your disposal. But what do they all mean?
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Whilst trying to connect to a VMware View portal on my Windows 7, 64Bit laptop i came across this error.
“VMware View Portal does not support your Operating System”
Well, i wasn’t going to change my OS, so i decided to have a look around to see if anyone else has had this problem. I came across this post on the VMTN Community Forum.
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A. The ESX Server hosting the vApp must in a DRS-enabled cluster.
B. The ESX Server can be a standalone host or reside in a DRS Cluster.
C. The ESX Server can be version 3.0 or later.
D. The ESX Server must be version 4.
If you picked answer D, Read on… If you picked answer C, give yourself a glass of Milk and a Gold Star!
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I awoke this morning with a long list of alert emails from the VCP4 Beta Exam thread on the VMTN Communites forum. By logging into your Pearson Vue account you could Finally!!! find out your VCP4 Beta result.
As you can see i passed. A huge sigh of relief was let out when i saw that.
Now to find a job………Anyone??
You may or may not know that the next London VMware Usergroup meeting is being held next Thursday 24th Sept. I will be in attendance and i will be looking forward to putting some faces to names, and of course a few beers afterwards.
Here is the info about the Usegroup meeting for anyone who doesn’t know about it.
Our meeting will be held at the Thames Suite, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP, +44 (0)20 7248 4444. The nearest tube station is Mansion House, location information is available here. Reception is from 1230 for a prompt 1pm start, to finish around 5pm.
To register your interest in attending,please send an email to alaricdavies at yahoo dot com with up to two named attendees from your organisation. If you do not receive a confirmation mail, please don’t just turn up since we will not be able to admit you to the meeting.
Here is a copy of the agenda:
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I’ve had numerous emails about this question which can be found in my VCP410 Practice Exam. So I think it’s time to sort this out once and for all.
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