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…
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…
Hey Everyone! I am very excited to announce that I am going to be doing some blog posts for the guys over at vBrowbag. I know what you are thinking, as I always do; “But what is going to happen to vNoob?” To that my answer is a resounding “Nothing!”. Read more…
VMware events generally do a pretty decent job of letting you know what is going in an enviroment… however sometimes the event just doesn’t give you nearly enough information. Great, alright so one of our datastores/Luns is having latency issues. Sounds like something I should look into… Oh Wait, I Read more…
Update 2014/09/15: Several People have had issues with this working recently, and I can no longer seem to get it to work as well either. I think there may have been a change to how VMware addresses the vmdk file, but I have been unable to spend the proper Read more…