A while back I needed to update the iLO firmware in my environment. Unfortunately, the HP VMware recipe called for a version that was newer than what was included with the latest Service Pack for Proliant (SPP). No big deal. I downloaded… Continue Reading
It’s patch week again which means many guest reboots in our VMware environment. Lately, we’ve been receiving alerts on many of our Server 2012 VM’s, and upon investigating we’ve found these guests to be hung at the Windows boot screen. After a… Continue Reading
We’ve had a number of projects at work that have forced me to dig in to vRealize Orchestrator more than I have in the past. Typically, I’d be writing PowerCLI scripts, but having hundreds of disparate scripts can eventually become too much to… Continue Reading
In last week’s post, we built out an App Volumes home lab deployment using VHD’s for provisioning. VHD’s do a great job when you’re assigning AppStacks to physical systems or VM’s running on other hypervisors, but VMDK’s are just so slick! First… Continue Reading
App Volumes is a fairly new acquisition for VMware. Formerly known as CloudVolumes, App Volumes comes bundled with Horizon 6 Enterprise as well as offered as a standalone product for Citrix shops. This is an on-demand application delivery solution that “installs” applications… Continue Reading
I have to start this post with a warning to run this script at your own risk. If you’re careful and know exactly what you’re doing, this can be very useful. Misuse of this script can cause data corruption and unnecessary outages. So… Continue Reading
Do you fit this description? You feel like you waste your lunch breaks reading mindless Facebook posts. You’re a virtualization junkie. You want to get involved in the VMware community but don’t know how. Ok, so you don’t have to… Continue Reading
We keep a matrix of all our ESXi host hardware information and this usually takes a few hours to touch each host and gather the information. It’s worth the time to ensure our environment is uniformed, however PowerShell/PowerCLI is able to make this much… Continue Reading
We recently audited all of our storage configurations and got a lot of mileage out of the following PowerCLI one-liner. This script checks all hosts connected to your vCenter for remote LUN’s that aren’t using the round robin PSP. HP recommends round… Continue Reading
Many of you might be adverse to letting an automated process reboot your guests if it thinks there’s something wrong. And that’s reasonable. However I wanted to share a neat feature that might cause you to take a second look. Last week… Continue Reading