When discussing vSphere 5.0 internally someone came up with the idea to list all new features that vSphere brings. Let me warn you that this is a long list, and the list could even be longer if we would have included all API changes and back-end changes. via blogs.vmware.com

  Hey look at this harddisk... its on fire. Anyway here is HP's pdf on how to use configure arrays on Smart Array Controllers. Nice section on hpacucli command line.   http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00729544/c00729544.pdf

For us Unix guys, the idea of doing everything in ESX via a GUI is very hard to swallow. Especially when it comes to repetitive tasks like setting up vSwitches and Port Groups. Sure you can spend and arm and a leg on Enterprise Advanced licenses so that you can have distributed switches, but why … Continue reading Esxcfg-vswitch Commands

iostat (input/output statistics) is a computer operating system monitoring tool used to collect and show storage input and output statistics. ( I stole this from Wiki) It is often used to identify performance issues with local disks or networked file systems such as NFS. For local disks and SAN disks I usually run it like … Continue reading Iostat Primer