I noticed a some tweets on Twitter. Eric Siebert has updated his Top 25 Blogs. I have to say congrats Duncan! You're at the top again, and it is by far the best resource on the web. Anyway, keeping up with the top 25 is a day's work - but it's worth it, so check it out here: http://vlp.vsphere-land.com/
Anyway, I did end up on place 50. Which is not bad, I've even found that someone voted #1 for me (and trust me, it wasn't me). So thank you very much for the guy (or girl) who voted #1 for me . Check out the results here.
I've been working with SQL again and wanna share this query. It displays all clusters and their hosts. Now, I know you can do this easy in Powershell - but I was looking at a different aproach, without connecting to my ESX server. Since all data is still in the database - I can query it here.
So here is the query, extend, discover and learn :
select F.NAME, E.NAME
from dbo.VPX_ENTITY E
left join dbo.VPX_ENTITY F
on E.PARENT_ID = F.ID
where F.TYPE_ID = 3 and E.TYPE_ID = 1
order by F.NAME
Today I did my presentation about performance troubleshooting and it was great. I had a lot of fun and I had great feedback. I've decided to put the presentation online. So here 'ya go:
By the way - last question from the audience was: "What tool did I use to create that presentation?". Well it's Prezi, check it out on: http://prezi.com. This presentation has over 90 images/movie clips and takes over 140 clicks. The preps took me a couple of days (creating the lap, some of the pictures), and creating the actual presentation including the maps took 16 hours. The presentation itself took 55 minutes and I still wasn't able to tell you everything about this great topic.
By the way - I was tipped by Aleks Nikolić from http://www.virtualistic.nl for using Prezi - thanks mate! Make sure you check his website - he has great info on it.
While giving out batches, talking to people, shacking hands, listening to the excellent opening keynote from Viktor van den Berg, Richard Garsthagen, shooting pictures I do have some time to blog. It's the 5th time this event takes place. Quite cool! Richard is doing an excellent presentation now. To get an impression, check my photo's online: http://www.jume.nu/vmug. Have fun clicking through them - check back later soon.
It's the second time in a short period where I've found a VM not starting and reporting as (inaccessible). I do not know why this happens, but I just found a quick solution for it (instead of creating a new VM using existing disk). The only thing you need to do is browse the datastore and remove the .vmxf file. Problem solved.
The vmxf isn't that important and gets recreated. It hold some insignificant stuff in xml format:
cat w30008.vmxf <?xml version="1.0"?> <Foundry> <VM> <VMId type="string">52 7e f4 7e f4 f1 1c d8-59 b3 2c d5 76 0d 0a 45</VMId> <ClientMetaData> <clientMetaDataAttributes/> <HistoryEventList/></ClientMetaData> <vmxPathName type="string">w30008.vmx</vmxPathName></VM></Foundry>
