Hey EveryOne! vNoob Back to hopefully drop a couple of knowledge bombs on you. Powershell/PowerCLI is really good at giving you the information you ask for…however, it isn’t always easy to know what to ask or how to ask. Hopefully these tips will help you get more of the information you want from Powershell/PowerCLI. 1.
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Hey Peeps vNoob here This happens to me ocassionally so naturally I assume everyone else is plagued by the same issue. Every once and a while I need to “archive a VM” from one of my environments. Essentially this means that we no longer need the VM but we just don’t want to outright delete.
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Hey Peeps, vNoob Here! This is something that I think(not sure) a lot of people are simply not aware exists. You can quickly backup esxi host configuration with PoweCLI. Before I jump into it, I would remiss if I didn’t mention Cody’s post on backing up ESXi host configurations with vMA/vCLI, which you can find
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Hey All, vNoob Here! Out on those interwebs there are a lot of VCAP-DCA Study guides out there, all with varying levels of completeness. In fact Chris Wahl has a list of several of them here. A few of those are completed or very close to completion. Langer and Coen however have just put out their own
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Hey Everyone! vNoob back for another post. Hope you aren’t tired of me yet! Although I have seen many tools out there that will check disk alignment, most of them require you to install or run some sort of program for it to do the checks. For this reason, I wanted to write a script
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Oh man oh man oh man. vNoob is back with another post! The title though certainly has a lot of big words, so let’s break it down. First what is crash-consistent quiescing? There are two types of quiescing, Application-Consistent and Crash-Consistent. Awesome! That explains everything right?? Application-Consistent snapshots means that the snapshot
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Greetings all! vNoob Here! I am going to be doing some blog posts for vBrownbag. If we haven’t met yet you can find me on twitter or on my website. Anyway let’s get started. One thing I noticed lately is there really isn’t an easy or quick way to check out what the current memory statistics are
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