vCenter Orchestrator - Finally Gaining Traction
I have stated before (here), vCenter Orchestrator was the least utilized and least understood product in the VMware product suites, which is a shame – because the capabilities in Orchestrator are …
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Subscribe via RSS →Interesting Tidbit in PowerCLI Release Notes
With last week’s release - there was also an updated version on PowerCLI that was released as well. VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 Release 1 Release Notes I noticed something quite strange …
How To Deal With a Complex Project
You have been tasked with a task, it could be a long term project, a one-off thing. These usually involve identification of number of tasks and stages that need to be executed in order to complete the …
Configuring SSH Equivalence for Oracle RAC
SSH Equivalence is one of the pre-requisites needed for an Oracle RAC installation. There are a number of posts on how to do this like here or here, and Oracle even have been so kind as to provide a …
Copy-DatastoreItem - Understanding the Traffic Flow
I brought this up on Twitter a while ago. What network path will the transfer take when using Copy-DatastoreItem - does anyone know? — Maish Saidel-Keesing (@maishsk) January 8, 2013 I studied …
PowerCLI Does not officially support Powershell v3
Just a heads up. According to the Release Notes PowerCLI is not supported Does this mean that it will not work – No of course not! From what I have tested it works almost flawlessly – but there are …
Invoke-VMScript Failed - and how I was Baffled.
Luc Dekens wrote a great post a while back Will Invoke-VMScript work? about the prerequisites needed in order to get Invoke-VMscript to work. Stop for a minute and go and read his post. Glad to have …
Creating an EagerZeroedThick disk with PowerCLI
Hey… - that is not possible – I hear you say – well in principle you are right. Up until today… By mistake of course – I found that there was a change made to the 5.1 release of PowerCLI – but …
Using Powershell to install PowerCLI
I am currently preparing a deployment package architecture for a full vSphere environment and one of the requests was to include PowerCLI in the installation script. I was surprised that I could not …
You Can’t Use Onyx with the Web Client
The Web Client will be VMware’s direction going forward. It was stressed more than once. There was even a slide from one the sessions to state that 5.1 will be the last windows based client – as I …