Archive for the ‘Virtu-Al’ Category
Friday, March 5th, 2010
The reasons why not to upgrade to ESXi are getting less and less recently, I think I knocked the automated configuration on the head at the London VMUG with my recent presentation which can be seen here.
With the improved vSphere API’s and using PowerCLI we are slowly able to replace ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Way back beyond the time before PowerCLI was invented there was this app called the Virtual Infrastructure Toolkit, when you installed the VITK if you had Update manager installed you used to be able to install some beta cmdlets which worked with update manager, this was subsequently removed in future ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Today Duncan over at yellow-bricks.com has started quite the conversation on technical support mode for ESXi or otherwise known as “unsupported mode”, check out his blog post and especially the comments here: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/03/01/disable-tech-support-on-esxi/
As always when I see a post my first thought is to PowerCLI, so how can it help ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Yesterday was a fantastic VMware user group, definitely my favourite one so far, lots of great content from some fantastic people and some real rockstars (I think that is the 2010 word for Guru’s) like Mike Laverick, Carter Shanklin (Carter USM), Stuart Radnidge and many many more.
I was privileged to ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
In the past I have virtualised a number of different applications and types of servers, among these have been several Citrix WinFrame/MetaFrame/Presentation Server or as it is currently known XenApp Servers.
Recently I have been asked about this on a number of occasions and the question is always the same:
How many ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
I was asked whilst on a customer site to work out who had created a VM, this is a common question in most environments where admin rights are the normal and creating a VM is as easy as creating a new word document.
After trawling through the logs for a couple ...
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
I have been asked to do a session at the London VMUG on 25th February 2010, after my previous session where I took the attendees through a beginners introduction to PowerCLI, I think I will throw them straight in this time and show them how we can configure ESXi using ...
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
With vSphere introduced some new maximum’s which we not only have to memorise for the exams but also have to keep in mind when designing and using your infrastructure.
In the back of your mind when adding a new host to a cluster you should always be thinking, how many hosts ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
I needed a quick one-liner today to help me find out how many HBA’s my hosts had, the following one-liner needs no more introduction:
Get-VMHost | Select Name, @{N="FibreHBAs";E={($_ | Get-VMHostHba | Where { $_.Type -eq "FibreChannel"} | Measure-Object).Count}} | Out-GridView
Output:
And of course you can easily add it to VESI/PowerGUI:
PowerCLI: How ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
For the PowerCLI lovers out there you may want to check out the recent Get-Scripting Podcast.
This month Jonathan and I have interviewed the master of PowerCLI himself, Luc Dekens or LucD on the forums and LucD22 on twitter.
Anyone who has ever visited the PowerCLI forums will know who Luc is, ...
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