Archive for June, 2007

Forgotten Snapshot Locator

Ever wonder if you had any old forgotten VM snapshots still running and chewing up disk space. Eric Siebert has written a VB Script to query the Virtual Center database and display all snapshots that exist in the VPX_SNAPSHOT table. The script can output to either a text file or to a message window and [...]

Are your servers VMotion Capable?

Do you need to determine if all your physical ESX servers are the same? VMotion Info will help you find out. The application gathers the important system information from your hosts and puts the results in one, single overview. At the Login screen just provide your username, password and the IP/DNS of your Virtual Center. [...]

ESX Patch Management

One of the common questions I get here at VMware from customers calling in to tech support revolves around ESX Patch Management.

What patch do I need?
Do I need to apply patches in order?
Do I want all the patches?
How do I manage this?

Here’s what I generally recommend-
You don’t need to apply ALL the patches. Just the [...]