vSphere 5 & HA Heartbeat Datastores
I was busy updating my vSphere lab from 4.1 to 5 and ran into a warning on the first ESXi host I updated to ESXi 5.0. It read: “The number of vSphere HA heartbeat datastores for this host is 1, which...
View ArticleHow to see if a Device/Datastore supports VAAI on ESXi 5 using ESXTOP or ESXCLI
Previously, using my home lab environment I had wondered how to check to see if my shared storage was using VAAI (VMware Storage APIs for Array Integration) – this is a technology that provides...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 / ESXi 5.1 Host Backup & Restore GUI Utility (PowerCLI based)
This is a little bit of a fun project I have been working on in bits of spare time I find. It is all written in PowerCLI 5.0 / 5.1 / PowerShell and the GUI was laid out using Primal Forms Community...
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