February, 2011
PowerCLI Freebies
One question I have been asked more and more recently is how can people get hold of the PowerCLI Poster if they didn’t attend VMworld or one of the VMUGs where VMware and I have been giving them away. There is of course the PDF version which can be found here but what if you [...]
Backing up the ESXi System Image
ESXi is based on a system image, VMware used to call this a firmware but some people found this misleading, most people still refer to it as firmware but in this post I will refer to it as a system image. The system image is a unified image which is the same whether booting from [...]
PowerCLI 4.1.1 Poster
Recently VMware updated PowerCLI to version 4.1.1, this includes some cool updates including several new cmdlets and a few fixes behind the scenes to make things run faster and fix type names. With the new version now comes a new poster, many of you will have already seen the PowerCLI Poster, I know thousands have [...]
Automated support bundles
I received an email recently from a gentleman asking if it was possible to export the support bundles for each host on a daily basis, this can be useful for not only having an archive of your system logs to help resolve problems and work out when they started but also useful for auditing purposes. [...]
