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 steps said to define the “keyboard.typematicMinDelay” on our new VM.…
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 to note that this script does not provide ANY error…
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 — a new admin had been creating test machines for…
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 | Where { $_.Guest.GuestFullname -ne $_.Summary.Config.GuestFullName } | Sort Name…
I’ve been reading up on requirements and performance information for virtualizing Citrix servers. I’ve actually been P2Ving a few – to save my Citrix guys from having to reinstall a bunch of legacy apps. Even though all the recommendations I can find oppose this method, it appears to be successful…