…but PowerGUI has the exact same functionality, with the ability to tie in all your other (Exchange, Active Directory, etc) PowerPacks. The VMware PowerPack has now come back under the PowerGUI installation wizard and is part of PowerGUI 2.3 which can be downloaded from the PowerGUI site here. Lest I start in again on how [...]
Pre-migration PowerShell lifesaving tip of the day: get a listing of all your VMs and the datastores they’re living on (’cause we all know your VM names don’t match their storage names, right?) in case you need to re-register your VMs from storage. We’re heading into another datacenter move, and I’ve learned that it’s nice [...]
This little tidbit saved me a ton of time and right-click pain today. We’re moving a datacenter overseas and I needed to add a ton of datastores to a bunch of hosts, as well as set their multipathing policy for each LUN. Trying to do this by hand? Teh suck. Trying to do this by [...]
Well, how’s that for a nice holiday gift? Veeam is offering a free 2-socket license of their products to VMware vExperts, VMware Certified Professionals and VMware Certified Instructors: the awesome Backup & Replication 5 Monitor Plus and Business Reporter If you’re running a home lab, you kind of owe it to yourself to get a [...]
Hats off to Luc at www.virtu-al.net for this incredibly useful PowerShell script to identify the display names of VMs and any that don’t match their folder structure. If you’ve ever unregistered a virtual machine in vCenter and sort of spaced where it lived on your datastores, trying to find a VM’s hostname in a bunch [...]
In trying to tighten up some monitoring issues in the current environment I’m working in, I did what most people would think to do – I turned on some alarms in vCenter, specifically “Host connection and power state.” I kinda want to know when hosts just drop off the face of the planet, right? To [...]
I suck at scripting. I have this big vSphere PowerCLI poster sitting next to my desk that I’m only now learning to reference. But PowerShell is quickly becoming my go-to tool of choice to quickly find out how my vSphere infrastructure is doing. To that end, Quest software released an awesome get-your-feet-wet-with-PowerShell tool called PowerGUI, [...]
Why didn’t I find this little trick sooner? On the heels of keeping your VI Client connection listing clean, you can also pre-populate your vSphere Client user name and (if you’re able to) password dialog boxes when launching the client. It’s wicked easy – get to the properties of your VI Client shortcut and modify [...]
A job or two ago, I worked in an organization that had a definite need for monitoring but a budget that couldn’t keep up with the expansion of the virtual infrastructure we were building out. After searching around for various options, I set up a Zenoss Core server, loaded up some needed Zenpacks, and we [...]
A curious thing happened on the way to finishing this post by Duncan Epping: I started the think that VMware’s High-Availability solution will actually come to be something that we can rely on. I could fill a lot of column space with the issues we’ve had in trying to protect our VMs using HA, and [...]