I wrote a PowerCLI script for a customer to organize his datastores in a couple of folders. The script moves the datastore to a folder according to the vSphere hosts cluster that uses the datastore.

This is done based on the name of the datastore which contains an identifier for the cluster it’s connected to. The …

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During failover tests in a stretched metro cluster environment we ran into some problems when recovering from a Permanent Device Loss state (PDL). The failover tests ran successfully. The vSphere servers reacted as expected when testing a split-brain scenario on the VPLEX cluster. The VMs which where running in the …

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One of the new features in vSphere 4.1 is the ability to configure Host affinity rules for DRS. These enable you to split your vSphere cluster in several groups of hosts and assign assign a subset of your VMs to one of these groups. There are plenty of use cases for this: Netapp Metrocluster Applications licensed based …

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VMware just released vSphere 4.1, Site Recovery Manager 4.1 and VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.3. What’s new in vSphere 4.1. The downloads can be found at: vCenter 4.1 ESX 4.1 - Release Notes ESXi 4.1 - Release Notes Site Recovery Manager 4.1 – Release Notes vSphere PowerCLI 4.1 vSphere CLI 4.1 vSphere Management …

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[On a Virtual Center 4 update 1 installation I [noticed]{style=“border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc;”} an Perf Charts service error on the performance overview tab. The advanced performance tab is functioning as normal.]{style=“font-family:sans-serif;”} [ …

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