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Quick tip: VMware vSphere and USB, use xHCI

For a project i had to move quite a lot of data, which is used as an initial seed for replication, to a second location. The best device i could find quickly was a 1TB USB disk. OK, fine… Copied all the data to the disk on my client and shipped the disk to the second location. There it was … Continue reading

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Quickly find large vmware.log files

Because one of our VMs had an error while taking a snapshot, i wanted to have a look inside vmware.log. Recognized that it was more than three GB in size. That’s not normal at all. In vSphere 5.1 VMware changed the way it rotates the vmware.log file. The setting “log.rotateSize” doesn’t exists anymore. It now uses a bandwith/rate limit, which … Continue reading

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