Automating vSphere With VMware vCenter Orchestrator
I had some time this past week to read Automating vSphere: With VMware vCenter Orchestrator by Cody Bunch. I stand by my views that vCenter Orchestrator is one of those uncovered gems that …
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Subscribe via RSS →Should You Patch the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance?
With vCenter 5 came the release of the the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance. This move was applauded by many due to the fact that VMware made the first step in the direction of removing their …
vExpert 2012–Thank You!
I am proud to announce that I have been awarded the VMware vExpert award for the year 2012. The current list has been posted here. It is nice to receive such an honor but I would rather like to take …
What Happens When No Swap Volume is Available?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? A customer of mine a small number of VM’s on one host that were continuously crashing. He would power them up and within less than 5 minutes – they would …
Quick and Dirty PowerCLI to Repair a Disk Space Problem
I ran into a case of a datastore that ran out disk space (why that happened is a whole different story – don’t go there… really…) but because of a whole strange chain of event this …
Open-SDK–Opening the vSphere Management SDK
When writing scripts (I am a fan of PowerCLI of course) there is many a time when I need to get something out of the vSphere SDK so I can dig in and get the details that I am looking for. Of course …
Cause a Linux Kernel Panic or a Windows BSOD
In some testing I was doing with VM HA monitoring – and I would highly recommend Duncan’s post for some more information on the subject - I needed to crash a VM to test the functionality. So in …
Removing ^M Characters from Files in ESXi
As part of a build process for an ESXi server – on of the stages are to upload a valid SSL certificate to the ESXi server. When copying the certificate over to the host with pcsp for some reason they …
Set-UpdateToolsPolicy–For your VM’s
In continuation to William Lam’s post on how you can Automating VMware Tools Upgrade Policy and thanks to a comment left on the post – I wanted to perform the same functionality in PowerCLI. I present …
50 Free licenses of VMware Horizon App Manager
VMware is offering 50 Free Licenses of VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5 on certain purchases of VMware SKU’s. FAQ Q. What is the current offer? A. During this promotion, eligible orders will …