Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Linux P2V with VMware Converter Stand Alone

Posted on June 1, 2010 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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P2V Post Migration Cleanup

Posted on May 4, 2010 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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A quick way to find virtual machines with incorrect names

Posted on May 3, 2010 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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Repeated Characters when Typing in Remote Console

Posted on April 27, 2010 by brian.wuchner

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

Posted on April 12, 2010 by brian.wuchner

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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