I just thought I’d share a simple PowerCLI script I wrote to find when all VM’s were created and dump it out to a CSV. I wrote it quickly for our vSphere 5.5 environment, so mileage on other versions may vary. It’s… Continue Reading
Fat client users rejoice! The VMware Remote Console (VMRC) 7.0 is now available for download! VMware brought VMRC back in response to Google’s announcement that they would drop NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) support in Chrome by the end of 2014. The new… Continue Reading
UPDATE: VMRC is now available! One of the reasons I keep holding on to the C# client is the fact that I can do so many common functions from within the VM console. The web console leaves me wanting more than just ctrl +… Continue Reading
I was under the impression that migrating vCenter to a new host was a difficult and risky process. That is, until I spoke with some nice folks at VMworld who said it was no big deal and only required moving the… Continue Reading
We haven’t had our HP BL460c Gen8’s with the new Xeon E5-2697 v2 12 core processors long. Last week we started to get e-mails from the help desk that users were complaining about sluggish performance in Citrix. Oddly, all of the… Continue Reading
The warning message above got a face lift recently thanks to the vCenter 5.5 Update 2 released on 9/9/2014. According to the release notes you’ll no longer see the “You cannot use the vSphere client to edit the settings of virtual… Continue Reading
It was a Tuesday morning and things were beginning to ramp up in the Sys Admin office. We were doing our routine AM checks when we noticed a production VM had the word “inaccessible” next to it in the console.… Continue Reading
VMware makes it easy to update VMware tools through the console, but clicking through hundreds of VM’s takes too much time. Thankfully VMware has provided us with the Update-Tools cmdlet so we can automate this process. We use folders pretty heavily… Continue Reading
The evening before the Boston VMUG conference my friends and I were in our hotel winding down with some pizza and TV, discussing which breakout sessions we were going to attend the next day. At 10:50PM my phone lit up “VMware… Continue Reading
I’ve been using Amazon’s EC2 cloud service for only a week and I absolutely love it! I wish my day-to-day operations at work could be this easy. It took maybe 30 minutes to go from creating my account to having WordPress installed… Continue Reading