Annoyed by the default setting for VM’s inside a vApp? I was, because when you power down the vApp, the VM’s are powered down instead of being shutdown cleanly. It can be a tedious task to check and correct this setting for all your vApps. This little script solves that problem for you. Enjoy! Download […]
Determining the LUN ID for a specific LUN in your VMware Infrastructure used to be simple. It was listed as one of the properties of the datastore you selected in the VI Client. Nowadays, more often than not, I dont see the LUN ID in the vSphere Client. Instead, I see some sort of identifier […]
Do you get these events in your system log? The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. attempting to start the service ntmssvc with arguments “-Service” in order to run the server: {D61A27C6-8F53-11D0-BFA0-00A024151983} Symantec explains this is caused by disabling the Removable Storage […]
Wow, vSphere vCenter Server has a lot of new alarms! Great for monitoring your environment. But a pain when it comes to documenting it. Thank God VMware for the PowerCLI! Just a few lines of code can do the documentation for you.
The following script is a request from David Gontie, who was kind enough to comment on a previous post. He’d like to add the location of his vm’s to a custom field. This is especially handy if you store all the files for a vm in a single datastore. Here you go David: Enjoy! Hugo
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 […]
