Category Archives: Virtualization

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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Get Thick Provisioned Disks

Posted on April 6, 2010 by brian.wuchner

Another interesting PowerCLI script from today.  My proof of concept environment uses thin provisioned disks — this lets us have a lot more test machines than we really have disk space.   The other day we ran out of space … Continue reading →

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Guest OS Mis-match

Posted on April 6, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been working on cleaning up my vSphere environment and found a very handy one-liner today.  The full article can be found here: http://frankdenneman.nl/2009/12/impact-of-mismatch-guest-os-type/ I took the suggestions in the comments and came up with the following: Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine … Continue reading →

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Server Cloning with Presentation Server 4.x

Posted on February 24, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been reading up on requirements and performance information for virtualizing Citrix servers.  I’ve actually been P2Ving a few – to save my Citrix guys from having to reinstall a bunch of legacy apps.  Even though all the recommendations I … Continue reading →

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vCenter Migration

Posted on February 24, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I had a big day at the office a couple of days ago.  I moved my vCenter application from one dedicated server to another.  That doesn’t sound like a huge ordeal, but it was a pain in the rear.  I … Continue reading →

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