Scenario: We have an Ubunutu (12.0.10) VM called btn-dnsng-v1 which was not responding on an ESX 5.0 host. It was only a test VM so not entirely important. Restart Guest wasn’t available (as VMware Tools wasnt installed) so we had to do a Reset. Upon the reset the VM stuck at 95 percent and no other operations Read More…
Month: March 2013
Shrinking Transaction Logs in MSSQL 2005
Scenario: We host a lot of small databases on an Microsoft SQL 2005 server. Occasionally the transaction (.ldf) files will become extremely large so we will need to shrink them. As we only take nightly backups we are happy to make the recovery model “simple”. If you require a more mission critical backup solution then Read More…
Monitoring Storage Adapter Performance using ESXTOP
As you will see from the diagram below, this particular VMware installation is using a Software ISCSI initiator (vmhba38) Key: CMDS/s – Number of IOPS per second (READ/s + WRITE/s) and other SCSI commands such as SCSI locks, reservations, etc. These are normally nominal though compared to IOPS. MBREAD/s & MBWRTN = Self explanatory (in Read More…
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