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…
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 | Where { $_.Guest.GuestFullname -ne $_.Summary.Config.GuestFullName } | Sort Name…
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 can find oppose this method, it appears to be successful…
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 stumbled along with a lot of help from Google and…
I just found this (somewhat inappropriate) video around cloud computing consultants: http://www.mckeay.net/2009/10/06/nsfw-the-cloud-computing-consultant/ Had to share 🙂