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Category Archives: Virtualization
Update to Enabling vSwitch CDP (vMA 4.1)
In a previous article Enabling vSwitch Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) I discussed enabling CDP on a standard vSwitch using vMA. Today I deployed the vMA 4.1 and started configuring an ESXi 4.1 host — only to find out that vifpinit … Continue reading
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ESXiBackup Folder Cleanup
In an earlier post Directory partition has not been backed up [DC=virtualcenter,DC=vmware,DC=int] I suggested a method to backup the VMwareVCMSDS ADAM database. As Joern posted in a comment, this solution could fill up your D: drive. The following code should … Continue reading
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Directory partition has not been backed up [DC=virtualcenter,DC=vmware,DC=int]
With the help of Alan Renouf’s vCheck (Daily Report) script I recently started noticing an error in my Windows event log on a vCenter server. This directory partition has not been backed up since at least the following number of … Continue reading
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ADAM Instance VMwareVCMSDS index may be corrupt
VMware vSphere vCenter Server installs an Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) [aka Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (ADLDS)] instance called VMwareVCMSDS. I have had several problems with this service — one issue with the contents of the directory (see vCenter … Continue reading
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Create a bunch of snapshots with PowerCLI
Last week I was working with snapshots in my lab. I came up with this one liner to create a bunch of snapshots on the same virtual machine: for ($i=1; $i -le 5; $i++) {get-vm “snaptest” |new-snapshot -name “snapshot00$i” -Description … Continue reading
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