Several times in the past few weeks I have ran into virtual machines that do not power on because of locked files. Steps to troubleshoot this issue are described in KB10051: Virtual machine does not power on because of locked files. While looking into this topic, I found the following…
I recently had a need to validate that all hosts in a specific vCenter had appropriate vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) settings. I didn’t want to change the values, I was just looking for the existing values. This short code will do just that: $myreport = @() Get-VMHost |…
The other day I was assisting a co-worker who needed a memory dump of a Windows virtual machine. He was working with Microsoft support and the support engineer mentioned that the process for gathering this data was different since we were using a virtual machine. I Googled vmware windows memory…
Starting with VMware Converter Standalone 5.0, the default action is to secure the P2V data with SSL. While this is nice if you are converting machines across an untrusted network or need the additional level of security, it can really slow down the P2V process. There is a blog post…
I recently upgraded an ESXi 4.1 Update 1 cluster to ESXi 5.0 Update 1 — but have not upgraded the tools yet. One of the Windows admins I work with mentioned that he noticed a development guest needed a tools upgrade, and since the server needed a reboot anyway, he…