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Snapshots are m*th3rfcukers. If you’re not careful, they will mass-murder your vms. Yet they allow you to time-travel! You want to use them, but how to prevent a massacre? Here’s how: relocate the delta files.
When you create a snapshot, the current state of the vm is preserved by leaving the disk files alone. All changes [...]
Although I spend quite some time in the Powershell Command Line Interface, the main tool for managing the Virtual Infrastructure remains the VI Client. So wouldn’t it be great if we could somehow show the results of our Powershell VI Toolkit scripts inside the VI Client?
Well, we [...]
Yesterday, alanrenouf asked the following question on the VMware Community VI Toolkit forums:
Is there a way (preferably a one-liner) to get a list of vm’s and the number of snapshots per vm?
Here’s a script that will get that info:
$VC = Connect-VIServer $VCServerName
$vms = Get-VM
$myCol [...]
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