The danger of multiple Storage VMotions
Today I received a bunch of new LUNs for some VMs in a development environment. The task is to move all the VMs off the old LUNs to the new […]
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Generate ISO Date Time in a Batch File
I was looking for a way to generate a log file name variable containing the current date and time. Yes normally I use vbscript and moving to Powershell however it […]
Prepare 1TB USB HDD for Topfield
Topfield forums discussed using a 1TB drive and Topfield in their documentation says that the 1TB is supported, however they failed to provide sufficient instructions on how exactly to set […]
vSphere FastTrack Day 5
Last day, can not say it has been overly arduous or the days that long really. Though I guess that depends on how many hours you would normally spend at […]
Create a temp file in Powershell
Create a temporary file in the TMP environment variable location in powershell: So as an example the above will create something like this: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp3472.tmp This $TempFile variable can then be […]
vSphere FastTrack Day 4
Module 10: Scalability Back to the Summary tab, can now see the memory used, reserved, ballooned and vmkernel swapped all in one location. pg511 More of the same as previous […]
Initiate Multiple VM Power Down
Needed to shutdown some hosts due to power work happening in one of our buildings, so therefore needed make sure all the various teams affected? (effected? can never remember which […]
WMI and Powershell Getting Started
Had a question the other day from a colleague about how to get access to WMI from within Powershell and thought that I might post it up to help others, […]
vSphere Power.CpuPolicy Error
After attending the VMware vSphere FastTrack course came back to play with the new power management features of vSphere. Using Jason Boche’s Post and attempting to set the Advanced configuration […]
vSphere FastTrack Day 3
Module 7: Virtual Machines Again not much different, higher maximums etc. How to create, clone, template etc. New items of interest are the changes to the Summary tab, the addition […]