2 years ago a VMUG user in Denmark created a Ubuntu VM that could graficily could show the develeoment of the amount of VM’s in a Cluster. Unfurtionally someone stole my labtop and the VM :-). So I had to create a new. And of cause it’s based on PowerShell ;-). The webpages shows the… Read More »
Scott Drummond from VMware has made a super document describing how to read output from esxtop. http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9279
Today i came across a post on Yellowbricks.com about the VIX API. Duncan writes about how he was able to copy a file (vb script) from his labtop to all his VM’s in a single script, and then execute the script on all VM’s from the same script – and much much more. Read more… Read More »
Yesterday I by mistake added the VirtualCenter servers local Users group to a folder in VC with ReadOnly permissions. This resulted in that I couldn’t delete or change any permissions on the folder. To solve the problem do the following (On a MSSQL2000 – should be almost the same on MSSQL2005): Open the SQL Server… Read More »
Today I had to upgrade all our Jumphost VM’s from 256MB to 512MB of memory (more than 200 VM’s). There are two ways accomplice this. 1. Do it manually (Very time consuming) 2. Script it with PowerShell As the lazy person I am I decided that scripting was the way forward. The script I came… Read More »
I have created at PowerShell script that obtains a list of VM’s that have snapshots attached. The output is then converted to a html file using the cmdlet ConvertTo-HTML. And just to make it easier to obtain the html file, the script mails the html file to me as an attachment. Ths script has been… Read More »
Today i came across an article from techtarget.com about securing and auditing VM’s and ESX hosts. There are a few free tools that can help you audit your host servers. Tripwire’s ConfigCheck and Configuresoft’s Compliance Checker for ESX, both of which are lite versions of each company’s enterprise-level product. Read the full article here.
VMware has released a video comparing the two installations. The video is worth watching http://www.vmware.com/technology/whyvmware/resources/esxi-hyper-v-installation.html
A few weeks ago we were conducting a vRanger DR test of a VM (new host and new LUN). The VM was restored succesfull, but when we powered it on we discovered that it for some unexplaned reason had lost the SCSI0:1 (100GB) and SCSI0:2(300GB) VMDK’s. It had created two new 20GB VMDK’s instead. We… Read More »
The past few days I have been trying to learn the basic of PowerShell and the VIToolkit for Windows. And after playing around with it, I thought that the best way to learn PowerShell was to have a goal. And what better goal than converting the vcinfo script I created with VIPerlToolkit. A beta version… Read More »