I recently went through and upgraded the VMware Tools on all of my virtual machines. The only one I couldn’t get to work was my vCenter Mobile Access machine. After some searching, I finally found this article on the VMware Communities site. It took awhile to find, so I wanted…
I recently attended the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting course. It was a very good course and I’d recommend it to anyone responsible for day-to-day maintenance of a virtual infrastructure. During the course we discussed the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) and looked at some of the vSwitch configuration options you could set. One…
Over the years I have seen thousands of Windows Servers and completed hundreds of Windows P2Vs. I only have dozens of Linux Servers and have yet to attempt a Linux P2V – until now! To beign I found an older model physical server. This physical server had a Dell PERC…
I’ve been doing a lot of P2V migrations over the last few months and wanted to share a couple of lessons learned. Our environment uses McAfee ePO to centrally manage our desktops and servers. We noticed that after a P2V migration the agent would no longer be able to communicate…
A few days back I saw a twitter post from @maishsk which linked to this article: http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-speed-up-your-powercli-queries.html The article got me thinking about the difference between Get-VM and Get-View and I wanted to apply it to a script I’ve been using for a little while. This is a pretty simple…