Small Quirk with Get-View vs. Get-VM
I was trying something last night to compare the speed of the two Cmdlets here. I noticed something though. While running the command I wanted to check against how many machines I was running the …
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Subscribe via RSS →Deploy-ESXi v1.0 - My ESXi Script-0-Mania entry
As I posted a few weeks ago - I entered the ESXi Script-0-Mania Contest. Unfortunately, my entry was not chosen as one of the top entries, but hey - I don’t do this for the money - I enjoy what …
CD Connected to Another Client
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 …
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 …
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 …
Israel VMUG - February 2010 - Cloud vision
Last Thursday I participated in the Israeli VMUG meeting. The following are my thought and observations from what was presented at this meeting. (The product release dates mentioned below are not …
Optimize NFS settings for Celerra
In continuation to both Jason Boche’s and Scott Lowe’s excellent posts about the recommended Advanced Settings for ESX while using a Celerra NFS mount, and after Jase McCarty’s post …
vCenter PowerCLI Migration Script
As I promised in a previous post I wanted to migrate from a vCenter to whole new machine Process was: Export folders Export VM locations in Folders Export Permissions Export Custom Attributes Create …
Assigning Permissions – PowerCLI
Have you ever been asked to assign permissions to a VM/Folder/Resource? Come on, own up! Of course you have. Ever done it with the GUI? I guess the answer is the same. So GUI is pretty easy: Find …
Testing Network Failover with PowerCLI
Two weeks ago I wrote an article about How To Bring Down A Single NIC In ESX?. In that post you could see that in order to test this you had to go into the console of the ESX and run the commands on …