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 🙂 Granted, I select out just the name and the 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…
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…
Update 2014/09/15: Several People have had issues with this working recently, and I can no longer seem to get it to work as well either. I think there may have been a change to how VMware addresses the vmdk file, but I have been unable to spend the proper Read more…
Lately I have been trying to determine which of my VMs have oversized, or allocated more resources than they need. I know that there are programs, plugins etc which do this, however I wanted to take a shot a just a quick script that could give some direction. Although if Read more…