Chapter 9 Filtering and Comparisons This was a short chapter but still had some unexpected nuggets of knowledge. An interesting thing was I was not aware, and/or never noticed that sometimes the properties listed from a format-list or format-table are not always the actual property names you would find in Read more…
Chapter 5 Adding Commands Super fun Chapter. The majority of the chapter was focused on modules and snapins. This was nice because although I felt I had the general overview of them previously, this chapter forced me to explore them a bit more than I probably would have otherwise. The Read more…
Just yesterday I restarted management services/agent on a host to try to resolve an unrelated issue. After everything seemingly restarted ok. I could no longer connect my host to vcenter and I couldn’t directly connect to my host with the vSphere Client. It kept giving me an error to this Read more…
Chapter 2 Running Commands This was a fun chapter for me, and was more or less a review of info I already have a pretty good grip on. My favorite part is when Don explains how in his classes he makes his students repeat parameter syntax aloud… Hilarious! There was Read more…
Oh Dear, I am not sure what I am getting myself into…and you may be wondering that yourself. Assuming that I do a 1 part blog post per chapter of the book, that is a 28 part blog post. Being a blogger that has <1 year at blogging, that atleast Read more…
Scheduled Tasks is sort of a weird beast. Powershell v2 natively does not handle scheduled tasks very well at all, so you will see most people using scripting with schtasks, however this way is still clunky at best. I recently was tasked with getting all of the ntbackup information for Read more…
Yep, as you can tell from the title which is aptly named. I got my VCP5!!! I was super happy because I got a 383 on it. Granted I know it isn’t a 400+ score, but it is an awesome feeling passing by significantly more than just the hair on your chinny Read more…
So unless you live under a rock, (and if you do live under one, good for you and welcome back,) Voting has started today for the Top Virtualization Blogs of 2011. This voting takes place on V-Sphere Land, which I am sure is different things to different people, but to Read more…
Recently I have had two servers that have been giving me a hard time when I try to back them up using VDR. These are a couple of the errors I am seeing and this one… These two VMs happen to both be Windows 2008 with Sql Server 2008. Now Read more…
A while ago my vCenter Service shutdown and I could not get it restarted. I looked in the event logs of the server and found this guy Log Name: Application Source: MSSQL$SQLEXP_VIM Date: 11/14/2011 6:02:25 PM Event ID: 9002 Task Category: (2) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: SYSTEM Computer: Description: Read more…