On the Top navigation bar, you will now find a “Scripts” link. I went through a bunch of my posts(and I have more to go through) looking for scripts and powercli tidbits that I think would be helpful for most people. This will also make it easier to peruse what Read more…
vStorage APIs for Array Integration, or VAAI, allows the vSphere ESXi hosts to offload some of their storage workloads to the Storage arrays. Some of these workloads might be Storage vMotion a VM or provisioning a vmdk among others. VAAI is generally enabled by default on Hosts and most Storage Read more…
An important statistic to always be aware of is CPU Ready Time. CPU Ready Time is the amount of time a VM is ready with a workload to use CPU but has to wait to be assigned a slot on the actual hardware CPU. Having a High CPU time can Read more…
VM Swap File Policy Comes down to three choices : WithVM, On a Defined Datastore, or Inherit from on high. Now if that isn’t clear enough, there are also potentially three different places where you can set the VM’s Swap File Policy. These are on the VM, on the cluster, Read more…
Alright, hopefully this will be a quick one. Sometimes with powershell it takes strings of characters and even though you don’t want it to, it interprets them as Regular Expression(Regex). When this happens, sometimes there is really just no way to get around powershell’s understanding of what you want…. Read more…
Hey! I wanted to throw this one quickly your way. So in vSphere you can see the general status of a datastore. Which gives you all the information, but only shows one datastore at a time. You can look at all the datastores at one time, but don’t get all Read more…
For those who know me at all… I really like PowerCLI Like, Really Like PowerCLI You can get support bundles using the GUI and using vCLI, but why not just do it with PowerCLI, since that is what you are using anyway 🙂 It is that easy. Read more…
With this being the last week of voting I decided to throw together some of My Top picks of sessions you should vote to see at VMWorld!!! I have included the Abstracts as well. So GO VOTE HERE Abstract Occasionally tasks that are simple in the vSphere GUI are not Read more…
If your vSphere environment has been around longer than a year or two, it is very possible you still have some datastores that are using VMFS 3.x. This in it of itself isn’t a bad thing, but you are missing out on some of the great features that came out in Read more…
Greetings!!! This is something I have been wanting to do for a while, but only recently where I actually had a need to complete it. At the core I wanted to be able to copy vcenter alarms from one vcenter to another. Currently there isn’t really a great way to Read more…