piler update guide
In addition to my piler installation guide this now focuses on updating an existing piler setup. Luckily this takes noticeable less time than the installation. If you don’t have piler up and running yet, check out...
Category: General
Quick Tip: Get vCenter Instance UUID via SSH
That post is more a quick note, in case someone ever needs this. There might be few very specific and rare situations where you might need the unique vCenter-Instance-UUID. In this case, you can get the...
Solved Mystery: DRS, Powering On VM fails with “insufficient resources”
Once there was a DRS-enabled cluster with a mystery: When trying to start a virtual machine, the very generic error Insufficient resources appeared. However further checking all hosts in the cluster reveals that there’re enough resources...
Quick Tip: Use USB storage devices as datastore on VMware ESXi
When attaching any kind of USB devices, the service usbarbitrator claims those devices to allow passing through USB devices into virtual machines. This is (one of) the reason you won’t see USB sticks as "Storage Devices"...
piler installation guide
Want to update piler? Then you can check out my piler upgrade guide. This is my installation guide for mailpiler I have written and optimized in the last days. If there are any questions or ideas,...