We have a new Windows 2012 R2 file server cluster running on ESXi 5.0 update 2. My colleague told me that the disk performance is terrible when he tried to use robocopy to migrate some big data to the new clusters. In the resource monitor, the worst disk response time is up to 36,000 ms!! … Continue reading High disk latency in Microsoft cluster on ESXi
ESXi datastore with corrupted partition table
My colleague told me that he always failed to vmotion virtual machines to a particular datastore. The error message does not have much information, it just says the virtual machine files on the destination datastore is not accessible even the vmotion has not started yet.I found some relevant information in the vmkernel log: 2014-03-26T04:36:20.189Z cpu28:6188)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2318: … Continue reading ESXi datastore with corrupted partition table
PowerShell: XenApp Server Performance
I wrote a simple PowerShell script to monitor the real time performance (CPU usage, Memory usage and Disk queue length) of the XenApp farm servers. To make it work, you need to: 1) Download and install the XenApp Powershell SDK. 2) Ensure the 'Citrix XenApp Commands Remoting' service is running on the data collector server. … Continue reading PowerShell: XenApp Server Performance
WinSCP or Putty authenticates against Microsoft ISA/ TMG
Many companies use Microsoft ISA/ TMG as their enterprise proxy solution. This may work for most cases. But in some scenarios, it does not work well. For example, use WinSCP or Putty behind the proxy AND the proxy requires authentication. ISA/ TMG is mircrosoft technology, it uses NTLM based authentication which is not supported by … Continue reading WinSCP or Putty authenticates against Microsoft ISA/ TMG
False Alarm after IBM HS23 UEFI Firmware Upgrade
I upgraded a few IBM HS23 (7875G2M) blades' firmware (from 1.40 to 1.51) last week. After they booted up, I noticed there is a POST warning showing in the screen. Those blades do not have internal hard drives, as we install the ESXi on the USB drives. What the hell is the GPT corruption about!? … Continue reading False Alarm after IBM HS23 UEFI Firmware Upgrade