I know I have posted before regarding changing the vmtools upgrade policy, which you can find here. I noticed that I didn’t have an explanation about how to check the current vmtools upgrade policy. Fortunately, it is just an easy one-liner 🙂 get-view -ViewType virtualmachine| format-table name, @{name="ToolsUpgradePolicy";E={$_.config.tools.toolsupgradepolicy}} Granted, I select Read more…
When attempting to have a host enter maintenance mode recently I got a time out error. Fortunately after a little googling I found a KB here The only thing I needed to do is restart the management services on the host. Once I SSHed into the host it is a Read more…
For those who know me at all… I really like PowerCLI Like, Really Like PowerCLI You can get support bundles using the GUI and using vCLI, but why not just do it with PowerCLI, since that is what you are using anyway 🙂 It is that easy. Read more…
If your vSphere environment has been around longer than a year or two, it is very possible you still have some datastores that are using VMFS 3.x. This in it of itself isn’t a bad thing, but you are missing out on some of the great features that came out in Read more…
Hey Everyone!!! I just wanted to do a quicktip for how you can quickly check to see which of your VMs have CD Drives connected to them. YAY One-Liners!!! “get-vm |Get-CDDRive | Where-Object {$_.connectionstate.connected -like $true} |Select parent, isopath, hostdevice, remotedevice” This will check all your VMs with CDDrives connected Read more…
One thing that can cause a lot of headaches for a VM and an infrastructure in general is incorrect NTP configuration. Fortunately for a VM, there is mainly one setting for NTP outside of guest OS…Whether you want to get your time(NTP) from the vm’s host. There are really only Read more…
A while ago my vCenter Service shutdown and I could not get it restarted. I looked in the event logs of the server and found this guy Log Name: Application Source: MSSQL$SQLEXP_VIM Date: 11/14/2011 6:02:25 PM Event ID: 9002 Task Category: (2) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: SYSTEM Computer: Description: Read more…
I have both fortunately and unfortunately worked with HA a lot lately. I have a process that resolves most of the host HA configuration errors I come across. Obviously it won’t fix the specific errors relating to a vswitch or shared storage etc., but it does fix most of my Read more…
vCenter Keyboard Shortcuts Even though vCenter does a pretty good job of telling us what the keyboard shortcuts are, most of us don’t pay attention until someone tells us directly….I know I didn’t. So here is me telling you directly 🙂 Also I can’t quite get the formatting to look Read more…
When doing an Advanced Performance Chart in vCenter, do you ever wonder why you can’t choose the same metrics for a date range as you can for real-time? Well, I am happy you asked. The metrics you can choose from are based upon the vCenter Statistics Level you have set. Read more…