December, 2009
PowerCLI: Copying Advanced Host Configuration
I was asked in my script list comments if there was a way to copy the ESX host advanced configuration from one host to every other host in the cluster, thankfully PowerCLI gives us some nice cmdlets to work with that make this task very easy… Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration and Set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration So first of all lets list [...]
VESI & PowerGUI PowerPack V3
The popularity of this PowerPack never ceases to amaze me, as if it wasn’t enough to have more than 2500 downloads already it was also mentioned by the great Eric Sloof at the recent Dutch VMUG, check out a video of the session here (if you speak Dutch) or check out his slide deck here. [...]
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide – Available in Europe
The vSphere Quick Start Guide is doing well, I don’t think we will quite take the Christmas Number 1 best seller slot but still, thanks to anyone who has purchased the book so far and a bigger thanks if you have left us a review or published a blog post, its always good to hear [...]
Local Plugin Creator
Recently VMware are adding everything into vCenter to be centrally managed, apart from my PowerCLI prompt I think the vSphere Client is the second most launched application on my computer ! Now wouldn’t it be useful if you could add your other management interfaces into the vCenter Client, even if the vendor hasn’t created a [...]
PowerCLI Quick Reference Guide
Way back in the days of the “Virtual Infrastructure Toolkit” I released a quick guide for people to keep on their desk or in their pocket, the idea was it would give you enough information about the VITK whilst still being on a single (double sided) page. Well things have moved on and the days [...]
Exploring the PowerCLI cmdlets – Get-NicTeamingPolicy Part 2
In my previous post “Exploring the PowerCLI cmdlets – Get-NicTeamingpolicy” I showed you how to output some great looking information for vSwitches which detailed all the information we may ever need to know, so whilst on the same cmdlet lets look at PortGroups, these have the same type of settings and the same cmdlet also [...]
Boot from Paravirtualized SCSI Adapter
From vSphere U1, VMware now support booting from a Paravirtualized SCSI adapter, why would you want to do this ? Well why not, check out the VMware Performance Blog where VMware have tested this adapter and shared their results. VMware were able to achieve 350,000 I/O operations per second on a single vSphere host (ESX [...]
Exploring the PowerCLI cmdlets – Get-NicTeamingPolicy
One of the new cmdlets from PowerCLU 4.0 Update 1 is Get-NicTeamingPolicy, so what does this do ? It retrieves the Nic teaming policies of the specified virtual switches and virtual port groups, obviously ! So how can we use this cmdlet ? Well, as it details the teaming policies of either a virtual switch [...]
