Alright, so when I run script and am doing just general mayhem in my powershell session I always find a need to know which computers are online before running a script against them. Mainly because it is faster and I get less errors from my script not being able to Read more…
So let’s say you want to change the credentials that the VUM Plugin has been registered with VMware with…. Why would you want to do this one might ask. Well lets say your company is restructuring the service accounts that are used for various programs and apps that they Read more…
Chapter 24 Additional tips, tricks, and techniques This is just one of those all-around chapters. It talks about profiles, customizing the console, a little bit of regex stufff, and some working with dates. This isn’t one of those big “learning” chapters, however it is a great reference chapter that I Read more…
I don’t normally have a post like this but this time I just can’t help myself. Last week I had decided that I was finally going to setup VMware VASA for my Equallogic, so I started doing research to find out more. Previously I just haven’t had anytime to work Read more…
So was running into an interesting issue this past week that I thought I would write up a post about. I randomly and for no reason(seemingly at least) started seeing high cpu ready times at random times which was greatly affecting performance for one of my environments. This particular environment Read more…
Oh man this has been a crazy year! The site actually turned 1 on Feb 15, so I am slightly behind the ball, but I have been crazy busy! Looking at the picture on the right… if nothing else the site atleast looks better and slicker than what it used to. It Read more…
Chapter 18 Sessions: remote control, with less work You probably wouldn’t guess this from the chapter’s title, but this chapter is about Sessions. It was also partially a review of the earlier chapter in remoting, although this chapter was a bit more of a deep-dive on Sessions. Introduced in this Read more…
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Oh yeah…this one is going to be the mother. As it is currently just over 400 lines of code…Yeah I am exhausted. Anyway Here is the dealio
The end goal of this script is to automatically upgrade VMFS datastores to v5. However first it has to move all the VMs off of the datastore. SOOO…. you could say that the first part of this script is kind of a “poor man’s” SDRS Maintenance Mode. However it doesn’t take into account nearly the amount of things taken into account for the SDRS Storage vMotions, it just intelligently(or semi-intelligently) Storage vMotions VMs away from the datastore.
Chapter 15 Variables a place to store your stuff For someone who has used powershell for a little while here, most of the chapter seemed pretty straightforward. However trying to look at it from someone brand new to powershell(and in some ways I definitely still am) this is a very Read more…
Chapter 12 Multitasking with Background Jobs I am sure it didn’t, but it certainly felt like this chapter contained everything there was to know about jobs. Wow, I had no idea there was even that much to jobs. Per what is increasingly becoming the standard, this chapter has made me Read more…