Sometimes you want/need use iPerf to test the nic speed between two ESXi hosts. I did because I was seeing a NIC with low throughput in my lab. How can we test raw speeds between the two hosts? iPerf comes to the rescue. I was looking on how to do this on an ESXi host. I doesn’t come as a surprise that I found the …

Step 1 : Running the jar Step 2 : Configuration Step 3 : Migration Issues Storage vMotion? Target Datastore: Shared datastore (same as source) Conclusion Whilst upgrading the home lab I also decided to rebuild from scratch. There were some challenges to overcome because I have running VMs I don’t want to shut while …

What does the VMware User Group means to me? Well it is already more than a decade ago since I visited my first VMUGBE. I have seen the event grow from 15 visitors to more than 200. The last couple of years it is hosted in the LAMOT event center in Mechelen which is a superb venue. Ever since the first time I only …

The Horizon Client installer generates the following errors for Multimedia Redirection: Adding the following symlinks made the failure message go away. I’m wondering though if the packages get updated in the repositories whether this will break the Multimedia Redirection (MMR). I guess I’ll notice some day. View this …

I decided to upgrade the vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5 U2 to 6.7 though it is not supported, see VMware KB. As this is not supported you will NOT want go ahead with this in a production environment. Maybe I will have regrets later on too … but this is my lab environment so the alternative is to redeploy a new VCSA. …

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This script reads a CSV file and executes storage vmotions based on the input. The number of storage vmotions can be throttled and is by default set to maximum 6 concurrent vMotions. If the VM is already on the correct location it will not execute a storage vmotion for that vm. This is still work in progress. The …