September, 2009
PowerCLI: How many VMs on your Datastores ?
How many VMs do you have on your datastores ? Do you know ? should you care ? Yes, you should care, you should care because over saturated datastores can cause issues with IO and also cause scsi locks if you are using fibre. So what is the sweet spot ? Unfortunately its one of [...]
PowerCLI: One-Liners Checking Host Network Information
Sometimes as a consultant when performing an initial look or a healthcheck on a new system you will want to confirm all hosts have the correct network information, if there is a mis-configured vmotion portgroup or something similar then this could impact HA or if there is an incorrect DNS server then this may also [...]
vTip – A VMware Expert updating your VI
We have all seen the message of the day setting which allows you to alter what you would like to tell your colleagues today and other than the normal fun type messages I have never seen it put to good use. (Yes I know this is used to tell people that a host is being [...]
New PowerCLI Blogger
Anyone who has ever wondered how to do anything in PowerCLI and added a question to the PowerCLI community will know the name LucD or if you are on twitter, LucD22or if you were at VMWorld you will have seen the man in person presenting “TA2650 – Taking PowerCLI to the next level” together with [...]
Script List – Finally !
I have had a link there for a while, you know the one at the top of this page that said ‘Script List’ but didn’t actually contain anything. Well I finally managed to get some time to fill out a page with a list of all the scripts I have created so far, please take [...]
PowerCLI: APIs made easy “Project Onyx”
For those of you who are living on Mars it is VMworld, No I am not there but I am trying to keep up with all the information coming from VMworld. One of the coolest things I have seen is “Project Onyx” Onyx is a cryptocrystalline form of quartz, but apart from that its also [...]
