I’ve been doing a lot of P2V migrations over the last few months and wanted to share a couple of lessons learned. Our environment uses McAfee ePO to centrally manage our desktops and servers. We noticed that after a P2V migration the agent would no longer be able to communicate…
A few days back I saw a twitter post from @maishsk which linked to this article: http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-speed-up-your-powercli-queries.html The article got me thinking about the difference between Get-VM and Get-View and I wanted to apply it to a script I’ve been using for a little while. This is a pretty simple…
I’m attending a training class this week – vSphere Troubleshooting – and have used the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) for the first time. In the lab guide we began by deploying the virtual appliance for vMA. One of the first steps said to define the “keyboard.typematicMinDelay” on our new VM.…
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 to note that this script does not provide ANY error…
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 — a new admin had been creating test machines for…