So recently I found there was a fun issue happening on my ESXi Hosts This was happening a couple times a minute, essentially filling up the events tab for each host. Which although it didn’t seem to be affecting performance, it was incredibly annoying and “noisy”. After calling digging in Read more…
If your vSphere environment has been around longer than a year or two, it is very possible you still have some datastores that are using VMFS 3.x. This in it of itself isn’t a bad thing, but you are missing out on some of the great features that came out in Read more…
Greetings!!! This is something I have been wanting to do for a while, but only recently where I actually had a need to complete it. At the core I wanted to be able to copy vcenter alarms from one vcenter to another. Currently there isn’t really a great way to Read more…
I have been doing a bunch of work with vCenter Alarms this past week or so and I have found a pretty neat way to find the Alarms that have been created by users. Or it’s possible everyone already knows this little trick and I am just last to figure Read more…
Chances are if you are reading this post, you probably know the voting is open anyway. However, if you ONLY read the blog because you are singularly in LOVE with it.. Then.. I love you too You should VOTE! Even if you don’t vote for my blog, you should go Read more…
So I was trying to set some hostsnmp the other, with powercli, as all good boys should. Then I started getting some funky errors. Null or empty huh? Notice in the above picture, that I first did a “get-vmhostsnmp” which also should display information everytime. Even snmp that hasn’t been Read more…
I wanted to throw this out there for some who may not be aware, because I know I wasn’t aware for a long time. VMware does a good job about publicizing their Documetation Center. Which is great, because most everyone is aware of it, but the documentation center certainly does Read more…
Hey Everyone!!! I just wanted to do a quicktip for how you can quickly check to see which of your VMs have CD Drives connected to them. YAY One-Liners!!! “get-vm |Get-CDDRive | Where-Object {$_.connectionstate.connected -like $true} |Select parent, isopath, hostdevice, remotedevice” This will check all your VMs with CDDrives connected Read more…
This is obligatory recap of 2012 and looking forward at 2013 post. You have been warned 🙂 Let’s see, 2012 was easily my biggest year yet. I got my VCP5 I was voted 7th for Favorite New Blog I went to my first VMworld and met some kickass people I hit 200 followers Read more…
Most people know how to do this action in the standard vSphere Client, but doing the same steps in the Web Client is slightly different so I thought I would document them for everyone. This setting handles whether the snapshots are application-consistent or crash-consistent. Application-Consistent snapshots means that the snapshot Read more…