The following two sections of code can be ran independently or used in conjunction with Alan Renouf’s vCheck script. They return network specific issues that could happen in a vSphere environment. The first check makes use of a $clusters variable, which can be created using the following line of code:…
A year or so ago, I had added some generic sections to Alan Renouf’s vCheck 5 script, which I was using to report on several environments that I managed. A few months ago, Alan released a new version of vCheck 6. I decided to re-write a couple of these checks…
VMware recently released a new product call vCenter Support Assistant. This virtual appliance places an icon in the vCenter ‘Solutions and Applications’ area where you can contact support, open SRs and upload support bundles. You can view the entire product overview and access the download link from here: http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-support-assistant/overview.html. This…
Over the years I’ve done quite a bit of scripting. Many of those scripts SELECT, INSERT or UPDATE a SQL database. The other day I was looking at my tables and realized I didn’t know what (or if) some of them were used for and I didn’t have very good…
This is an issue I experienced a couple of months back, but thought I’d take some time and document it here as I couldn’t find any reference to other people experiencing this issue. For some background for this environment there are two vCenters joined with Linked Mode. One of the…