Monthly Archives: April 2010

Repeated Characters when Typing in Remote Console

I’m attending a training class this week – vSphere Troubleshooting – and have used the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) for the first time. In the lab guide we began by deploying the virtual appliance for vMA. One of the first … Continue reading

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Storage vMotion with Thin-Provisioning in PowerShell

In an earlier post I mentioned a script written by a co-worker to determine all of the non-thinprovisioned virtual machines.  This script is a follow-up to that, which allows actually uses storage vMotion to resolve the problems.  It is important … Continue reading

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Get Thick Provisioned Disks

Another interesting PowerCLI script from today.  My proof of concept environment uses thin provisioned disks — this lets us have a lot more test machines than we really have disk space.   The other day we ran out of space … Continue reading

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Guest OS Mis-match

I’ve been working on cleaning up my vSphere environment and found a very handy one-liner today.  The full article can be found here: http://frankdenneman.nl/2009/12/impact-of-mismatch-guest-os-type/ I took the suggestions in the comments and came up with the following: Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine … Continue reading

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