Datrium DVX Introduces Insane Performance

Datrium just announced a brand new feature of the Datrium DVX – Insane Mode for Insane Performance.

The Datrium DVX Insane Mode allows VMware admins to quickly increase the storage performance by up to 2x, without any storage controller upgrade… I know it sounds too good to be true but the Datrium DVX is truly INSANE!

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Every year again – Vote for the Top vBlog 2016

Top vBlog 2016
top vblog 2016

This years voting for the Top vBlog 2016 is now open and it is your opportunity to actively support your favorite bloggers. Currently there are more than 300 blogs about VMware and virtualization out there.

If you frequently read blogs and follow bloggers on twitter, go ahead and vote for your favorite blog. As part of the voting, you will need to pick 12 of your favorite blogs out there and then rank them in an order from #1 to #12. Depending on the ranking, the blogs will get points assigned.

All details can be found on Eric Siebert’s blog.

Happy voting everyone

Error occurred while processing request. Check vSphere WebClient logs for details

If you are running vCenter 6.0 Update 1, you might have seen the following error.

Error occurred while processing request. Check vSphere WebClient logs for details.

Error occurred while processing request. Check vSphere WebClient logs for details

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VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 is out

VMware released ESXi 6.0 Update 2 on March 15th 2016. This release has a couple important bug fixes for ESXi hosts.

ESXi 6.0 Update 2

  • Hostd stops responding when esxcli commands are executed using PowerCLI

 

  • ESXi host experiences a purple diagnostic screen with multiple Correctable Machine Check Interrupt (CMCI) messages
    • The purple screen will show something similar to:
      PCPU : no heartbeat (2/2 IPIs received)
      0xXXXXXXXXXXXX:[0xXXXXXXXXXXXX]MCEReapMCABanks@vmkernel#nover+0x195
      0xXXXXXXXXXXXX:[0xXXXXXXXXXXXX]MCEHandleCMCI@vmkernel#nover+0xb4
      0xXXXXXXXXXXXX:[0xXXXXXXXXXXXX]IRQ_DoInterrupt@vmkernel#nover+0x33e
      0xXXXXXXXXXXXX:[0xXXXXXXXXXXXX]IDT_IntrHandler@vmkernel#nover+0x12b 0xXXXXXXXXXXXX:[0xXXXXXXXXXXXX]gate_entry@vmkernel#nover+0x64
      0xXXXXXXXXXXXX:[0xXXXXXXXXXXXX]LFQueue_Dequeue@vmkernel#nover+0x59
      0xXXXXXXXXXXXX:[0xXXXXXXXXXXXX]MCEBottomHalf@vmkernel#nover+0x39
      0xXXXXXXXXXXXX:[0xXXXXXXXXXXXX]BH_DrainAndDisableInterrupts@vmkernel#nover+0xf3
      0xXXXXXXXXXXXX:[0xXXXXXXXXXXXX]VMMVMKCall_Call@vmkernel#nover+0x2c6

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