Even though the process hasn’t changed much from 7.0, I thought I would post my walkthrough of how I deployed my vSphere Center 8.0 to my home lab on VMware Workstation. After downloading the VCSA ISO, I first mounted the ISO on my Ubuntu desktop and navigated to the vcsa Read more…
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 come across this issue a couple of times now, and thought it would be a good idea to create a post around this slightly confusing topic. VSAN Health has various warning and alerts which it can notify about, but today I will be discussing hardware compatibility. Once we 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…
Matching OS Drive Letters to VM Disks is definitely something each VMware admin has wanted at some point or another. Unfortunately, it is not the easiest of tasks. Using a suggestion I found in one of the forum posts that the solution might be a combination of two different scripts referenced Read more…
I am going to make this one short and sweet. On a reboot, hosts that have access to RDM LUNs can take a LONG time to reboot. In order to correct to correct this we can set the hosts to have the LUNs perennially reserved. The only way to set Read more…
Long Title… But first things first. SRM Cmdlets for PowerCLI Ben Meadowcroft created several cmdlets and even a module using the SRM API. Having spent a good deal of time in the SRM API myself, let me tell you….IT IS A MESS. Long story short Ben, spent a lot of Read more…
Let’s get started installing vCenter. It is never a bad idea to know what screens and information you will need before you get get there! Already this looks SIGNIFICANTLY more streamlined than the vSphere 5.5 installations with SSO, Inventory Service, etc etc etc Next next next! I went with Embedded Read more…
This is especially useful for SMB who don’t have large environments, and can’t throw resources at a vCenter Server This is what one of my vCenter Servers looked like recently To give some insight, this is a vCenter that manages around 3 hosts and 50 VMs. I quickly found a Read more…