This post started out as a bit of nonsense. A bit of an exploration into what could be done via the API using PowerShell. What better place to start I thought than the MOTD. Who doesn’t love the way VMware greets you… sometimes repeatedly in the same session with it. Then, I got to thinking…
-> Continue reading Random VI Hardening Tip – Automating MOTD Updates
Happy spring holiday from ProfessionalVMware.
While glancing over at PoSH today (the tiny turtle) I was inspired to do a bit of thinking and talking about using PoSH. Specifically the VI Toolkit, it really wouldn’t be blog worth otherwise would it? What I got thinking on, and what someone on irc clued me into, was storing credentials. Why store credentials?
-> Continue reading PoSH Article of the Week! – Secure Credential Storage
Late Tuesday evening I was troubleshooting an issue with a Mr. Smith from #vmware on Freenode. Yes, really, his name was smith. The issue we were troubleshooting was related to sharing VMDK files, between two VMs running on separate hosts. After pointing Mr. Smith to my “Share and Share Alike” and feverently insisting that it
-> Continue reading Sharing and Snapshots – Another Look at Sharing VMDK Files
“Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell: TFM” Is now available for pre-order from Sapien In "Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell", you will learn how to perform everything from simple ad-hoc reporting at the command-line ("are any of my virtual machines powered off?") to complex scripts to automate a massive deployment of hundreds of virtual machines.
-> Continue reading It’s Here! It’s HERE! Well, Almost – Pre-Order Hal’s Book
PoSH and JeOS have moved upstairs and into the ProfessionalVMware.com ‘offices’. They also received a major upgrade to their filtration system (hint: they had none prior, and were getting regular water changes). Take a look: View Full Album
After spending an evening last week or so getting VMware Workstation running on OpenSuse 11.1, I found myself in a situation due to hardware failure, that I had to re-install… again. This time I needed the process for getting Workstation running again looked more like: 1. Ensure haldaemon is running 2. Install kernel-default, kernel-source, gcc,
-> Continue reading Updates On Suse 11.1 and VMware Workstation
ProfessionalVMware will be going on a bit of a vacation for the week of April 20-24. Rather than leaving you in the cold however, I figured that this would be a great chance to display some of the best work the community has to offer. That said we’re now accepting guests posts for the week
-> Continue reading We Need Your Help – Guest Posts Needed for the week of April 20 – 24
Is your NMI stuck? Well you better catch it! Hey! I’m allowed to make bad jokes. After all, that is why you keep coming back, no? So to follow up some on our prior NMI issues. It seems that unlike what was stated before, this isn’t specific to resource constraints, x64, or vSMP. In fact,
-> Continue reading Is Your NMI Stuck? – More On The NMI Stuck Issue
Can’t be much more descriptive than that. Check the release notes here. What’s New Notes: Not all combinations of VirtualCenter and ESX Server versions are supported and not all of these highlighted features are available unless you are using VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 4 with ESX Server 3.5 Update 4. See the ESX Server, VirtualCenter, and
-> Continue reading ESX 3.5 U4 Now Avail!
This is much better than the post I had written, so here it goes. You are unable to add an ESX Server to a cluster in the VMware High Availability (HA) configuration . This article provides you with steps to: Troubleshoot an ESX Server that cannot be added to a cluster Troubleshoot VMware HA configuration
-> Continue reading VMware Guide to HA Troubleshooting
Sometimes you really can have too much of a good thing. Or is it? I’ve had a few specific use cases come up (demos for Virtualization Congress) where running one virtualization platform, on another virtualization platform makes sense (There will be instructions released on doing this closer to the show). Suffice it to say the
-> Continue reading What Happens When Chuck Norris Divides By Zero? – Virtualizing Virtualization
You can disregard this post as shameless self promotion, but thanks to y’all readers, Professionalvmware.com is #9 on the vLaunchpad top 20 list: I strongly suggest that you add the vLaunchpad as your homepage, and subscribe to the various rss feeds!
From the VI Toolkit blog. Can you spot the difference between this code: 1: foreach ($vm in (get-vm)) { 2: $disks = Get-HardDisk -vm $vm 3: foreach ($disk in $disks) { 4: Write-Host $disk.CapacityKB 5: } 6: } And this code: 1: foreach ($vm in (get-vm)) { 2: $disks = Get-HardDisk -vm $vm.name 3: foreach
-> Continue reading Go Go PowerShell Speed Racer! – Speeding up PowerShell scripts.
David Strom recently reviewed HyTrust Appliance on his blog: HyTrust offers managers and administrators of VMware’s ESX virtual infrastructure a centralized, single point of control for hypervisor configuration, compliance, and access management that is both secure and easy to use through ordinary Web browsers. We tested the RC version of the product in
-> Continue reading HyTrust Beta Video Tour
It’s late on a Friday. You’ve just virtualized this workload app server, and now it’s gone straight to hell. No, it didn’t pass go first either. You go through the motions of checking the host, knowing that you triple checked it the first time before putting the workload on there. You verified that you’re not
-> Continue reading Windows VM? Performance Gone to Heck? – Check Some of These Non Obvious Places
Since y’all voted me and Pancil into the Virtualization Congress. I figure y’all should have some input into the presentation. Keep in mind, we’ll not just be covering managing VMware VI with PowerShell, but we’ll also cover managing Xen & Hyper-V too. Anything general? Anything specific? A particular use case you’d like to see? Leave
-> Continue reading Managing VI with PowerShell Presentation – What Do You Want To See?
Duncan at Yellow-Bricks has posted an excellent guide to some resources he used to help prep for the VCDX exam. Go check it out!
A few weeks ago I introduced you to one of the newest members of the Professional VMware staff, JeOS. This week, you get to meet his partner in crime, PoSH! Like JeOS, PoSH is a baby Red Eared Slider, and like PowerShell for which he’s named, is still new on the scene, but is growing
-> Continue reading Sunday Turtle Blogging – Meet PoSH!
The WordPress update took all of about 47 seconds. Total. Took longer to back things up. I’m still uploading all of the images and the like from the site to Mosso Cloud Files using the wonderful CDN-Plugin. Leave me a note in the comments or via Twitter if you run into any problems.