• Combining PowerCLI & ESXCLI to change PSP on a Large Scale

    calendar Feb 15, 2015 · 3 min read  ·
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    Using PowerCLI you can use Set-ScsiLun -MultipathPolicy “RoundRobin” to set the PSP, but I found it quite slow using it on a large scale. It would update one datastore on one host every 5 seconds. If there were 10 ESXi hosts with 200 Datastores, that’s 2000 operations, at 5 seconds each, it adds up to 3 hours. The same …


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  • Two weeks after XtremIO Gotcha

    calendar Sep 28, 2014 · 2 min read  ·
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    It’s been 2 weeks since I blogged about the XtremIO Gotcha, and the story has since been covered by many people and news services (See previous post for links). Chad Sakac quickly responded on his blog, and if you read through the comments, he says they’ll take care of customers: “I’ll say one thing more: we planned a …


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  • Melbourne VMUG May 2014 Wrap up

    calendar May 22, 2014 · 3 min read  ·
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    Last week we had the quarterly VMUG meeting at the Telstra Conference Centre. We paid homage to the creator of the VMware community, John Troyer, as he’s moved on from VMware after 9 years. John was responsible for the vExpert program, in which 16 were from Melbourne this year. If you want to participate in the VMUG …


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