Category Archives: Virtualization

Getting data out of vCOps

Posted on October 3, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been troubleshooting a specific problem where storage latency jumps very high during very short periods of time, usually in the late evening/very early morning hours. The latency is very bad, sometimes in the 2,000ms+ neighborhood. My storage guys see … Continue reading →

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Resize Guest System Partition with PowerCLI

Posted on September 27, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I recently needed to resize system partitions on several Windows 2008R2 virtual machines. To do this with Set-HardDisk the virtual machines must be powered off and you need a helper VM. I was looking for a way to do this … Continue reading →

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vSphere High Performance Cookbook

Posted on September 16, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been working on a little side project recently — reviewing a book for Packt Publishing.  This process has given me a new respect for authors and the process behind writing a book.  The book – vSphere High Performance Cookbook … Continue reading →

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Powering on a virtual machine from the command line

Posted on July 5, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I recently made a post about powering on virtual machines in bulk using PowerCLI. That process worked well to power on VMs in vCenter, but what if you need to turn on vCenter? In some cases (lockdown mode, firewall rules, … Continue reading →

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Quickly power on virtual machines with PowerCLI Get-View

Posted on July 5, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I recently had a need to power on a lot of virtual machines in a specific order. I was given several text files each numbered with a startup sequence. At a specific time I would be given a number and … Continue reading →

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