I’m now done with the new script and it’s working perfectly. Background for the script: At work we use vRanger to take DR snapshots of all our VM’s (more than 400). We decided that we would only snapshot drive 0 and use a TSM client to backup the data in each VM and that the… Read More »
VMware has released the LAB guide for PowerShell from VMworld 2008 – Cannes. It is great for getting inspriation for scripts or just to learn how the PowerShell for VMware works. Get it here form VMware.com Or my local copy here.
Frane Borozan has created a automated script based on VMware Converter to take a physical server and make fresh replica of it on VMware Server. It is worth a look. http://www.p2vbackup.com A. Mikkelsen
At work we use vRanger to take DR snapshots of all our VM’s (more than 370). We decided that we would only snapshot drive 0 and use a TSM client to backup tha data in each VM and that the snapshots were only to be taken outside working hours. These choices gave us some problems… Read More »
Just stumbled upon this nice tool to do SVmotion from a Windows server http://communities.vmware.com/thread/122847?tstart=0 A. Mikkelsen
How nice is this ….. Scalethemind.com has released a updated version of a script to generate a overview of how your ESX hosts disk space are used. Check it out. http://scalethemind.com/2008/02/script-checking-esx-disk-space-usage-from-a-central-linux-box/
Yellow-bricks.com has been so nice to update the smtp_send.pl script and host a copy of it. You can find the latest version on his website A. Mikkelsen
Take a look at this cool application for deployment of ESX hosts. http://www.vployment.com/ A. Mikkelsen
René vd Linden at www.renevdlinden.nl has released a excel sheet that can be used to document and update roles and permissions in VC. It look very easy and straight forward. http://www.renevdlinden.nl/wordpress/2008/01/04/vmware-vc-roles-permissions/ A. Mikkelsen
I have updated the vcinfo.pl script so it also lists if a VM has snapshots. http://www.amikkelsen.com/?p=44 I have also created a new ViPerlToolkit script that lists all the VM’s that have snapshots and prints in on screen. All the ViPerlToolkit scripts can be found in the Download section under VIPerlToolkit Scripts. http://www.amikkelsen.com/?page_id=43 I’ll add more… Read More »