March, 2011
Enable / Disable VAAI with PowerCLI
If you don’t know what “vStorage APIs for Array Intergration” (VAAI ) is already then I suggest you look it up or at least talk to your storage vendor or VMware about VAAI as this is a great feature added by VMware in vSphere 4.1. This basically offloads some of the features back to your [...]
Using the EMC Cmdlets with PowerCLI
As you know from my previous post “EMC PowerShell Cmdlets – Where to start” I have started looking at the EMC PowerShell cmdlets, one thing I was keen to use them for was to find information on my VMware Datastores. This information is already available if you have the EMC VSI Plugin installed as GUI [...]
EMC PowerShell Cmdlets – Where to start
I managed to finally find time recently to install the EMC PowerShell Cmdlets and have a play, this was mainly evenings and lunchtimes but when else do we get spare time in our working days ! I thought it would be useful to share my experience and show what EMC are doing in the world [...]
Change VM Video Memory
I was contacted by a colleague asking if there was an easy way to set the video memory for a number of virtual machines, he had been working with a customer who had received an error when a virtual machine was being Vmotioned, the Vmotion completes successfully but the following error is received: Insufficient video [...]
PowerCLI Book Preview
If you follow any of my co-authors blogs you will know that our PowerCLI book “Vmware vSphere PowerCLI Reference” is due out imminently, around the end of this month, you of course do not have to wait this long, you can already pre-order the book from any of the sites listed below: Amazon USA Amazon [...]
Interview with Dimitar Hristov – VMware vSphere PowerCLI Engineering Team
I think I must have missed this interview when I was at VMworld Copenhagen but recently came across this and gave it a quick listen. John Troyer does a great job interviewing Dimitar Hristov from the PowerCLI engineering team, there is some great information in here to do with getting started and the future of [...]
