Hello All! I wanted to share my thoughts on my latest round of studying and the VCP-DTM 2018 exam. For those of you who haven’t been paying attention to the cert changes lately, just the name of the cert alone should be enough to tell you new things are Read more…
Note: I first wrote this a month or two ago, so it is possible a newer version of HCIBench has fixed some of these issues. This is definitely not an exhaustive troubleshooting guide HCIBench for networking….however I did want to provide a couple of tips that might save you some Read more…
This post assumes that everything has been set up and configured correctly for HCIBench. After filling out all the sections, Select “Easy Run”, Save Configuration(always Save Config after any changes), and Validate. This will do a quick check and make sure everything looks good. Here is where the tricky part Read more…
A colleague requested me to do this and I thought it was cool enough and easy enough to share. He wanted to have the vCheck reports have collapsible sections. Makes sense, you know you have 1 billion VMs that are out of date on Vmtools cause you are doing upgrades, Read more…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…
A bit delayed but here it is. I sat the DCD a while at VMworld San Fran. Having never taken an exam at VMworld, this was an entirely new experience for me. Well, the PearsonVue exam experience, was pretty much like any other, I just didn’t realize how much it would Read more…