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Start folding@home face the COVID-19 pandemic together!
What is folding@home? Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics. It brings together citizen scientists who volunteer to run simulations of protein dynamics…
Slice and Dice esxtop -b output
About a year ago I posted a python code to slice and dice esxtop -b output file. It had many dependencies on the platform like Setting up the correct…
Collecting esxtop data for long intervals
While troubleshooting performance issues with Vmware support, a constant ask that comes forward is to collect esxtop data during the issue. This can be operational nightmare as performance…
Adding the host to Distributed switch and Mapping the VMs [V2]
A few days ago, I posted a DVS management script that added hosts, uplinks and mapped VM based on user inputs in the form of prompts and csv…
What’s wrong with this code?
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Adding the host to Distributed switch and Mapping the VMs [V1]
You have built a new vCenter from scratch and would like to move host from an existing vCenter server to this one. As a preparation for this migration…
LIST 10 LARGEST TABLES (vPostgres)
Connecting to a vPostgres instance: For most VMware products you can connect to the vPostgres instance using the command below Sometimes, the default user for vPostgres is not…
Reset Syslog.Global.Loghost to blank
This morning I worked with the customer where syslog traffic was choking an already crippled network. As a quick fix we wanted to spare the network from syslog…
Debloat DB (PostgreSQL) for VMware appliances
As vSphere admin you might be managing a few VMware appliances running an instance of PostgreSQL like SRM, vCenter etc In most of these appliances PostgreSQL runs with…
Catch me speaking at VMworld 2019 US
VM Performance Demystified and Best Practices to Optimize (BCA2149BU) Link to video: https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2019/videoplayer/28519 Link to PDF: https://cms.vmworldonline.com/event_data/12/session_notes/BCA2149BU.pdf