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Find zombie VMDKs & VMs with RVTools for FREE!

Graham
Someone recently asked me if there was something available to locate zombie VMDKs and I recalled a few years back when I was looking for exactly the same thing. A quick search through my old laptop's download folder brought up RVTools. Back then it was particularly useful for locating zombie VMDKs and...
vSphere

Where are my memory modules located inside an ESXi host?

Graham
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

Graham
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...
VMware vSAN

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

Graham
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...
CertificationDell Technologies

Dell Certification Program

Graham
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 Technologies

Dell iDRAC7 – Record boot process to video file

Graham
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...
VMware SRM

How to Upgrade Site Recovery Manager – The correct order

Graham
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...
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