Distribution and Security Groups
I was asked to day at work, “What would be the quickest way to add all of the members of a Distribution Group to a Security Group?”, the reason of course being because you cannot assign …
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While trying to VMotion a VM I hit an error because of a Mounted CD. Well you might say – that is simple. Just go into the GUI and then disconnect it. But this time it was connected and open in …
A running VM that did not exist
This was a weird one that hit me today. I had a performance issue on a server. esxtop is the first I thing I looked at and got this: ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %RDY 69 69 VSE 5 83.98 85.74 …
My ESXi Script-O-Mania entry - Deploy-ESXi
I have submitted a script for the VMware Script-O-Mania contest that will end in a little under 9 hours from now. The idea behind the script was for automating the deployment of a stand-alone ESXi …
Network Ports needed for VMware Products
As usual looking for this list of which ports need to be punched through the firewall in order allow all kinds of services to work correctly. Well today – I tried to scan a host for (that is behind a …
Generate a Random Password - Powershell
A task that I do quite often when building a new System is to create random password a local user on the machine – Don’t ask – it is a an OPSEC requirement from way before my time. So instead of …
Spring on VMware Promotion
VMware acquired Springsource not so long ago, and now they have started to offer their first promotion. Excerpt of the announcement below As IT organizations continue to virtualize increasing …
Customize a Template During Deployment
When deploying a Virtual Machine from a template you have the option of Using the Customization Specifications for Automating Deployment. I am sure this has been mentioned more than once but I could …
Quick Powershell tip - Remote Windows Management
Something that I do every now and again (almost every day - many times per day) is to connect to the Event Viewer / Computer Management / Services console of a Remote Windows machine for …
How to Throttle Removing ESX Snapshots
Recently we had a planned maintenance window that required shutting down power to the entire building. As part of the procedure we created snapshots of each VM before the powerdown. With PowerCLI this …