Last year I was asked to reduce the time spend on installing and configuring our ESX hosts. Because we weren’t using Enterprise Plus licenses, we didn’t have Host Profiles. I came up with a simple two-step process based on the EDA appliance and a custom PowerShell script. Install the host from PXE. Only setting the… Read More »
Some time ago I was asked to create a script that could list each VM’s videocard settings. As you could see that was quite simple. I using the Get-View -ViewType to speed up the query – See LucD’s post on http://communities.vmware.com/message/1511671#1511671 for more info. Then I was asked to set all VM’s videocard setting to… Read More »
September 15, 2010 VMware released version 2.0 of its Project Onya Alpha. You can download and read more about Project Onyx on the projects home page. http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/automationtools/onyx?view=overview This project is a must have for all PowerCLI geeks 🙂
When you upgrade your vSphere environment you normally also upgrade the VM’s virtual hardware to version 7, to take advantage of the new features. This is pretty normal procedure for all VMware admins. But in some very very rare cases you might need to move a VM upgraded to hardware version 7, to a host… Read More »
Using IBM Blades and Cisco switches to run your ESX enviroment? If yes, have you tested what happens if you unplug the network cables going into one switch? If you like me have bundled 2 or more cables going from one switch, to one backbone switch and done the same for the other switch, then… Read More »
After we upgraded to vSphere 4.1, the SCSI adaptor of all our WINXP guests changed from LSI Logic Parallel to BusLogic Parallel. This change should normally not create any warnings or problems it VMware Tools are up to date. But after the upgrade all our WINXP guests got the following warning when powered on in… Read More »
After we upgraded to vSphere 4.1 we have been expirence problems with VM’s entering FullScreen mode. The issue is that 9/10 times a VM enter FullScreen mode, you are not able to move the mouse to the bottom part of the screen and select a program or the Start option. VMware is aware of the… Read More »
Yesterday we upgraded one of our vSphere Clusters to 4.1 – it went smoothly 🙂 But today the users reported that they weren’t able to use cut % paste between the guest and their computer using the vSphere Client (Console). After a quick google we found that VMware has tightened the vSphere security by disabling… Read More »
Friday I was at a customer to upgrade their ESXi 4.0 (free) to version 4.1. This should have been an easy task, download CD, burn it and install. This wasn’t the case, the new ESXi 4.1 wouldn’t install, it kept freezing during the extract of the cim.vgz file. The problem occurred on both the Dell… Read More »
Just released the complete powershell script to control vRanger backup from vCenter. Read about the script and it’s features here. Download it here.