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Where are my memory modules located inside an ESXi host?

GrahamNovember 7, 2016December 20, 2016

I found this very simple one liner for showing which DIMM slots are populated and which ones are free inside an ESXi host. I have not yet found a way to do this via ESXCLI but this will do for now: smbiosDump | grep 'Size|Speed|Location' Running the above will produce...

vSphere

VMware vSphere 6.5 – New features overview

GrahamOctober 18, 2016November 18, 2016

VMware are soon releasing vSphere 6.5 to GA. The day it is released I'll be posting a series of posts to deep-dive into the main topics with videos to demonstrate new functionality. Links to videos Without any further discussion, here's the new top features in vSphere 6.5: HTML5 clients VMware acknowledged...

vSAN

How to see where VM data / objects are located on VSAN

GrahamOctober 11, 2016October 11, 2016

Once you've deployed VSAN and built a couple of VMs, you might create a few Virtual Machine Storage Policies but then wonder where exactly are those VM objects located? Let's say you create a VM and use a Storage Policy with Failures To Tolerate (FTT) set to 1. You may wonder on which...

Certification Dell EMC

Dell Certification Program

GrahamOctober 3, 2016March 4, 2017

Looking to certify with Dell? There are a few certification tracks as follows: Dell SC Series Storage Professional Exam Dell PS Series Storage Professional Exam Dell Series Networking Professional Exam Dell PowerEdge Professional Exam Dell PowerEdge Associate Exam Implementing Dell Client Systems Exam Network Associate Exam Storage Associate Exam Pass...

Dell EMC

Dell iDRAC7 – Record boot process to video file

GrahamSeptember 30, 2016October 22, 2017

Everyone has been around for the aftermath of a server crashing. Usually servers are configured to reboot automatically after a crash caused by a power failure for example. Sometimes you don't know the cause. iDRAC7 to the rescue! - Now you can set the iDRAC to record the boot process...

vSphere

Creating local SSO users and permissions within VMware VCSA 6.x

GrahamSeptember 22, 2016October 11, 2016

If you do not use a identity source such as LDAP or Active Directory, you can still create new user accounts on the SSO domain that you can assign different roles to within the vCenter Server. For example, if you are not using an identity source but need a read-only...

vSphere

How to find the physical NIC that a VM is using on VMware vSphere ESXi

GrahamSeptember 21, 2016September 13, 2020

Have you ever needed to work out which physical NIC (pNIC) on an ESXi host is being used by a Virtual Machine? Simply SSH to the host that the VM is runningon and run esxtop then press n You'll see something similar to the below: Notice the VM names on the...

SRM

How to Upgrade Site Recovery Manager – The correct order

GrahamSeptember 18, 2016October 11, 2016

When upgrading SRM, it must be done in a very specific order, following the below (from the official documentation for VMware SRM 5.8) In summary you upgrade everything except your hosts on the Protected site, then the same at the DR Site. Finally Upgrade the ESXi hosts at the DR...

vSphere

Enabling copy and paste between VM console and Windows VM on ESXi 6.x

GrahamSeptember 18, 2016October 22, 2017

I've seen this issue some up a few times on the VMTN forums so I've explained the reasons why this is disabled by default ans how to enable it in the blog post. I've also published a video at the bottom of the page. Copy and paste is disabled between...

Dell EMC

Dell iDRAC Automation with RACADM

GrahamSeptember 17, 2016March 1, 2017

Since as far back as I can remember, Dell have made available a CLI for their iDRACs. This means we can easily automate the configuration of the Dell iDRAC remotely. This is key for a number of reasons: Speed of server deployment. We can deploy servers much faster by automating...

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