Category Archives: Virtualization

vCheck (Daily Report)

Posted on January 9, 2011 by brian.wuchner

One of the best scripts I have ever used is the Virtu-Al.net vCheck daily report (http://www.virtu-al.net/featured-scripts/vcheck/). Not only does it show problems in your virtual infrastructure, it also shows the power of PowerCLI and PowerShell. A little over a month … Continue reading →

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Dell M610 BIOS Update on ESXi 4.1

Posted on December 22, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I recently needed to update the BIOS on a Dell PowerEdge M610 blade running ESXi 4.1 offsite. The server had an iDRAC Enterprise, giving me access to the local console and virtual media — however, the only BIOS update I … Continue reading →

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Multiple Default Servers in PowerCLI

Posted on December 19, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I support multiple vCenter environments. The most recent versions of PowerCLI support this through the use of multiple default servers. When you are connected to multiple vCenters commands such as ‘Get-VM’ will return VMs from both default servers. When you … Continue reading →

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OPENFILER and VMXNET3

Posted on December 14, 2010 by brian.wuchner

Installed VMware tools using my previous article at http://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/?p=133 Once the tools were install I shutdown the virtual machine and changed the Guest OS from ‘Other Linux (64-bit)’ to ‘Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit)’. Once I had switched to … Continue reading →

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vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) and Active Directory domain login

Posted on December 14, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I’m a little bit of a snob…I like using my domain credentials on anything I log into. My favorite ESXi 4.1 feature isn’t the storage performance improvement provided by SIOC or VAAI nor is it the added memory compression technology. … Continue reading →

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