This PowerCLI oneliner will give you quick insight in the capacity of your VMware clusters by showing the oversubscription on CPU’s. The CPU Oversubscription is the ratio between the number of virtual CPU’s (vCpu) allocated to all vm’s in the cluster to the number of physical processor cores of the hosts in the cluster. If […]
Are you still performing old-school in-guest VM backups with a backup agent? Not ready to buy a backup product that does complete VM backups through the vStorage APIs? Then you will need to rebuild all your VM’s with the original configuration before you can start restoring your data. As always: PowerCLI to the rescue! This […]
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.
