Using PowerCLI to change all LUNs to Round Robin

Each week I learn a little more about PowerShell and PowerCLI. Today, I wanted to share how I used PowerCLI to change all of the LUNs connected to my ESXi hosts to the Round Robin multipathing policy. Note: Please make sure that your SAN/storage supports Round Robin before making these changes. First thing you need …

VMware View 5.1 on VMware vSphere 5.1

UPDATE: One day after my blog post, “VMware vSphere 5.1 now supports VMware View 5.1.x.” See also “Finally! View 5.1 now supports a newly patched vSphere 5.1.” When VMware vSphere/vCenter 5.1 was released in September 2012, I started to get excited about upgrading both my VMware View and VMware vSphere environments to versions 5.1. Both …

VMworld Hands On Labs problems

I’m at the VMworld 2012 conference in San Francisco. One of the historic benefits of VMworld conferences in the past have been their hands on labs. Not this year. This year their labs have been riddled with performance issues and customer frustration. On Sunday, I and about 500 other attendees stood in line for 2.5 …

Mediterranean vacation recap for July 2012

Last month my wife, brother, and parents met in Istanbul to begin a Mediterranean cruise to Rome. We had a good time and took lots of photos. Here are some of the highlights. Istanbul, Turkey (2012 Jul 15) After checking into our hotel, we had time to head out on foot to see Taksim square …