VMware ESXi 4.1 brings Scripted Installs!!
This is a welcomed (and much demanded) added feature to ESXi. I talked about the deployment of multiple ESXi hosts previously and how I used a golden image to lay down on individual SD cards. It’s...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 4.1 Configuration Maximums
ESXi 4.0 Update 1 brought with it one major update (as I pointed out here). Now that 4.1 was released on July 13th, I wanted to take a look and see if anything else major has been changed. Biggest...
View ArticleDRS Host affinity in 3x & 4.0 – keeping a VM from migrating to a different host
Using DRS in vSphere is a great thing for load balancing your cluster, but what if you need to keep one VM from vMotioning to another host? Everyone mention’s host affinity when searching, but digging...
View ArticleScript to pull host UUID for VMware PowerCLI
A reader on a previous post asked about pulling host UUIDs, so I wipped together this script. Usage is like this: Get-VMHostUUID.ps1 -vmhosts ("host1","host2","host3")or Get-VMHostUUID.ps1 -vc...
View ArticleScript I needed to get info for multiple VMs = Get-VMInfo.ps1
I’ve recently had a ton of requests for information about specific VMs. They want to know how many disks they have, CPU count, how much RAM, and which environment the VM resides in. Instead of...
View ArticleScripting it old school! Bash shell script to apply ESX 3.5 Update 5a
So you’re still using ESX 3.5 and need to patch it manually? Bummer, I know, I’m in that boat right now, or was. I ran “esxupdate -a query” to find out the latest patch and saw, “ESX Server 3.5.0...
View ArticlevMotion fails at 10% with error 0xbad010d on VMware ESXi
I recently had this problem, but forgot to take a screenshot for the blog, sorry guys. I was patching an HA/DRS cluster using VUM and none of the VMs would migrate off one specific host. The error it...
View ArticleSite Recovery Manager 5.1 installation fails connecting to database –...
I recently ran into an issue when installing SRM and thought I’d share. I didn’t get a screenshot, but the error was something like this: Failed to Initialize – dbmanager could not initialize vdb...
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VMware Site Recovery Manager & Active Directory – Part 1 – Testing Recovery...
To include Active Directory or not to include Active Directory, that is the question. I’ve been reading a lot around VMware’s Site Recovery Manager and considerations surrounding Active Directory. Most...
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VMware Site Recovery Manager & Active Directory – Part 2 – Domain Controllers...
On May 25th, I published this post covering some scenarios on how to use Site Recovery Manager & Active Directory. Michael White from VMware responded with some good info. He had an awesome...
View ArticleVMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 Connection & Session Limits
SRM Connection or Session Limit Reached Have you ran into one of these errors before: [exec] AxisFault [exec] faultCode: ServerFaultCode [exec] faultSubcode: [exec] faultString:...
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VMware Virtual SAN Health failed Cluster health test
Here’s the error While building a new environment for my lab, I ran across an interesting thing yesterday. I looked at my cluster’s VSAN health and saw this error: It’s complaining that my hosts don’t...
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How to create NSX CLI users & set up NSX Plugin for vROps
TL-DR: See below for details on these commands Create a local user in the NSX Manager’s CLI, then use the API to grant CLI privileges to that user. Here’s how using a linux machine: ssh...
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