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From the monthly archives: July 2008
If you’ve already read my previous post on checking the NIC bind order on all your servers, please read it again.
I have corrected the script after discovering the previous version was not finding all misconfigurations in our environment. Now it return a collection containing both the IP-addresses of the first and second NIC in [...]
Today I’ve started to disect the new v1.0 official release of the VI Toolkit (for Windows), THE tool to script VMware tasks using Windows Powershell.
To get you started, here’s an overview of added and removed cmdlets:
Greetings,
Hugo
I’m seeing a lot of posts on different forums about VMware HA.
Some people, including myself, have been receiving error messages when trying to power on a vm in a HA cluster like this one:
“Insufficient resources to satisfy HA failover level on cluster x in y”
Some fellow bloggers have preceeded me [...]
To all you SysAdmins: a very happy System Administrator Appreciation Day (of SysAdminDay for short)!
I hope you’ll finally get the appreciation you deserve.
Check this out:
“VMware is challenging the world’s VI administrators to a contest of skill, creativity and raw scripting talent. If you think you have what it takes to be the best and an all expenses paid trip to VMworld Las Vegas is your cup of tea – this is for you.”
“When you add a host to a cluster, all virtual machines in the cluster default to the cluster’s default restart priority (Medium, if unspecified) and default isolation response (Power off, if unspecified).”
Resource Management Guide, page 116.
If you’re into automating (scripting) VMware tasks, as of today you might run into the term VIX. What is is and – more importantly – what it can do for you, is described in the first post of the VIX API blog over at VMware:
http://blogs.vmware.com/vix/2008/07/what-is-vix-and.html
Too bad it doesn’t [...]
James O’Neill is taking Powershell one step beyond….
You have to read this to believe it!
Today’s Powershell Oneliner is one to make your manager happy:
Get-QADComputer -sizeLimit 0 |
Group-Object -Property OSName,OSServicePack -noelement |
Sort-Object -Property Count -Descending |
Format-Table -Property Count,Name
All this simple oneliner does, is query Active Directory for computer objects and group them by OS Name and Service Pack. The output looks something [...]
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