No story this time around, just some HBA rescanning love: PowerCLI Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba vCenter Orchestrator In the vCO Client, open “Workflows” & Drill down to “Library > vCenter > Datacenter”: Right click, “Start workflow…”: Finally: “Submit” Summary Questions? Comments? Follow me on Twitter here or drop a line in the comments.
Certainly wasn’t expecting to see this Friday: Congratulations! The session proposal below has been accepted for VMworld 2011.Session ID: VSP1361Session Title: PowerCLI 101Track: Technology and ArchitecturePresenting at: US The Session Glenn Sizemore and I will be presenting some of the fundamentals for managing your vSphere environment in a post service console world. The session will
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Haven’t had time this week to collect a full set of ideas & thoughts into a coherent post, so rather than give you something fully baked, I’ll give you some of the stuff running in my open tabs as well as a Veeam vPower Follow-Up, and not really in that order: vPower Summary So for
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Who’s got the vPower? “SHO-NUFF” Thursday, June 2, 2011, I’ll be doing an in person “BrownBag” in Houston, Tx as part of the Veeam vPower roadshow. Topic PowerCLI 101, session will run about 1h long. If you’ll be in town, I’d be more than happy to have y’all roll out to the session.
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So this thing here happened. More importantly, the work I’ve been doing is now public: “Automating Day-to-Day Administration of VMware vSphere 5.x w/ vCenter Orchestrator” This hands-on technical guide to automating vSphere with Orchestrator teaches administrators how to save time and resources by automating their virtual infrastructure. Automation expert Cody Bunch teaches valuable practices and
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It’s that time again… when I put a post out days before the next BrownBag without really having a topic or goal in mind. Like every other time, the nerves get up… will they sense how haphazard and fickle this house of cards is before the show? While I know somewhere deep down, it’ll all
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In case you haven’t heard, the Public Voting for VMworld 2011 sessions is now open, and you can go forth and cast your votes here. My sessions: I am super excited to have had a few sessions make it past the first stage, but none more so than these: Come meet Cody Bunch, author of
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This being my first time rolling into an EMC World I was half expecting to see all of the sessions be well… storage related. However, with this years cloud twist, there are a good number of virtualization sessions as well. Here are the top sessions I’ve got ear marked: EMC PowerPath: Optimizing Path Management for
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Oh my… when it comes to tasks that are set and forget, this one was mostly forget. Not so much setting up the ODBC Connection, rather installing the SQL Native Client ODBC Driver for SQL 2008 when SQL is running on a host other than vCenter. Finding the installation The link in the sources below
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You know those guys? The ones who wrote that book? No? Well, the book is the VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference and this weeks guest is none other than Glenn Sizemore, one of the authors of said volume. PowerCLI 101 This BrownBag we’re going to spend some time talking to Glenn about the book and then
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I can’t say this will fix it for everyone, or will even be the cause of your 500 error. Earlier today an epic battle played out between Windows Live Writer and the WordPress install this site sits on. More specifically, I was greeted with a “500 Server Error”. In my server logs I found the
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Amazon posted my 4 star review of Ed Haletky’s (@Texiwill) updated VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise. Let me start with saying I’ve read the first edition of this book and Ed’s Security book and found both to be excellent. As this book was a second edition, I focused my reading on those updated
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Have you been to a BrownBag? Have you wanted to and haven’t had the time? Do I run them too late, early, on the wrong day? What about the format, to long? short? To little lab, to many words? Content wrong? Not deep enough? Tell me what you think here: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/526243/BrownBag Picture from this guy.
Nostra-Daniel once pontificated that memory is like stacking penguins on an island. Each thing you’d like to remember is a penguin, as you fill the island, you have to choose which penguins end up in the ocean. For me, setting a static IP on Ubuntu was one of those penguins that ended up being fed
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I’ll save you posting the entire press release, and just call out the new or upgraded features: Create custom groups of resources, either physical or virtual; Create custom logins (customer views) with either read-only or actionable privileges for these groups; Focus on a subset of infrastructure via a custom login to use and view a
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Amazon just posted my 5 star review of VMware vSphere Design. The review: I received this book via Kindle loan for 14 days, of which I only needed about 12 to get through it. Mind, that is not because the content was light, far from it. It was because the book did the following things:
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This get’s to be the third post in the “vSphere Automation 101” series or so. Not sure I want to call it a series, as that denotes some kind of commitment, and well, as we’ve discussed in prior posts, I’m lazy. Before we get too deep, here are links to the first and second parts
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A few of you may have heard the mutterings on Twitter that I was hunting around for some new gear. At first I was going to go down the path that Kendrick Coleman took and build out a white box lab (See his green machines post here). However, as I got into the weeds of
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When you are configuring vCO, one of the requisite steps is to configure LDAP. While vCO has some pretty nifty search buttons, you can still get this info and more using DSquery. Here’s a few examples: Find a Specific Group PS C:\> DSquery OU -name "ProVMware Users" "OU=ProVMware Users,DC=provmware,DC=local" Find a Specific OU PS C:\>
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A few vCO related things happened over the past few days. First is: VMware launched the vCenter Orchestrator Blog! If you’re into vCO, add this to your list of resources. The second, and just as exciting, was the release of the vCO Plug-In for Cisco UCS. the UCS Manager plug-in provides the necessary pieces to
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