In my last post we talked about getting started with using powercli to get information from Horizon. We even talked about some of the limitations that exist when using the default objects that Horizon returns as output. I wanted to take a minute and explain how to get the information Read more…
I have been using Powershell/PowerCLi a bit more with VMware Horizon lately, so I wanted to take a couple of posts to share a few things. The first is just how to use PowerCLI with Horizon. If you haven’t install PowerCLI yet, let’s start there. You can do it with Read more…
A colleague requested me to do this and I thought it was cool enough and easy enough to share. He wanted to have the vCheck reports have collapsible sections. Makes sense, you know you have 1 billion VMs that are out of date on Vmtools cause you are doing upgrades, Read more…
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…
Requirements: PowerShellGet Module PowerCLI PowerCLI SRM MeadowCroft Module/Cmdlets The latest PowerCLI and PowerCLI SRM are generally not available for conventional download, and the PowerShellGet Module is needed to download and install them. PowershellGet is inherently included in: Windows 10+ Server 2016+ Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5+ Powershell Read more…
This is an interesting thing that I have been looking at lately. Before I start though I should probably clarify terms, so we are all speaking the same language. In this article when I say Physical CPU, or pCPU, what I am referring to is the logical threads available on 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…
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…
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…