vSphere Web Client – Export System Logs
One of my favourite features in the vSphere Web Client (vSphere 6.0) is the ability to easily export system logs. Within the Hosts and Clusters or VMs and Templates view I can right-click on a host and select Export…
Add CPU or RAM to a VM while it is powered on
It is possible to add CPU and memory to a virtual machine while it is powered on. This is not enabled by default but if you edit the settings of a VM you can enable Memory Hot Add and CPU…
vSphere 6.0 – create a new alarm for snapshots using the vSphere Web Client
We all know that snapshots can be dangerous if left to grow out of control – they will fill the datastore!. I always like to try and mitigate this risk by creating a new alarm definition to generate an…
Removing large .dmp files
I have noticed that the disk usage of the C: drive on my vCenter server has increased considerably recently, despite the databases being stored on a different drive. Running TreeSize revealed large dump files in the following location: C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\CrashDumps These…
vSphere 6.0 configuration maximums
If you are looking for some information around the configuration maximums in vSphere 6.0 then this page may help. A single cluster can scale to support: 64 hosts 8000 virtual machines A single host can support: 480 CPUs 12TB RAM 2048 virtual…