vSphere Enterprise Plus -> vCloud Enterprise Licensing Question
My company took advantage of the vCloud Suite upgrade pricing last December to assist in a DR project. With vCloud I am implementing three new Cisco ESXi hosts that will utilize the new vCloud...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Enterprise Plus -> vCloud Enterprise Licensing Question
If I understand you correctly you are going to use the upgraded licenses as well as the ones from which you upgraded!? This may not cause any technical issues, but you are most likely violating the...
View ArticleCombine multiple get statement
This question is probably answered numerous times but I have a hard time figuring the answer, so here it is. Often time I need to combine multiple get statements into the output, for exmaple,...
View ArticleRe: Strange behaviour of virtual machines taking all dhcp range free...
Although I wouldn't rule out anything at this time, I don't think it's an issue with the current network driver nor the VMware Tools. What I could think of are some obsolete hardware related...
View ArticleRe: Combine multiple get statement
This is the closest way I have, but I am sure there is a more elegant way to do it. (get-vmhost esx04t).Name;(Get-VMHostSysLogServer -vmhost esx04t).Host
View ArticleScript to show amount of free space not zeroed out
We are running our enviornment on a storage array that supports zero detect thin provisioning (3Par). I am trying to find out which VM's and VMFS volumes have the most unused space that has not been...
View ArticleRe: Workstation 9 VMDK file corruption in Windows 8 Storage Spaces
In my case, I am not using dynamic disks at all. I have a two-way mirror storage space pre-allocated using all available space on each physical drive. The only app I have that has problems with...
View ArticleRe: Using VMware Tools GUI to disable time synchronization with host
Great thanks. Only problem is, our Windows admins don't have powercli permissions and they need to rely on what they can find only inside the guest OS. If VMware tools are set not to display, is the...
View ArticleShow active directory authentication information with PowerCLI
How can I get a list of all hosts that are NOT using active directory for local authentication in environment using powerCLI?
View ArticleJoin hosts to active directory using PowerCLI
How can I join a group of hosts to Active Directory using PowerCLI? Thanks
View ArticleRe: Combine multiple get statement
You could do something like thisGet-VMHost esx04t | Select Name, @{N="Syslog Server";E={Get-VMHostSysLogServer -vmhost $_ | Select -ExpandProperty Host}}With a claculated property you can go a long way
View ArticleSet NTP Server information using powerCLI
How can I set NTP server settings on a group of ESXi hosts using powerCLI? I want to set my primary and secondary NTP server names, and configure them all to have the NTP server service start with the...
View ArticleRe: The file system where disk resides is full
@mfelkerIf "No", how do you explain "Compr.: 9%" in the first screen shot, which equals approximately the free disk space after the restart? André
View ArticleRe: Join hosts to active directory using PowerCLI
Something like thisGet-VMHost | Get-VMHostAuthentication | Set-VMHostAuthentication -JoinDomain -Domain MyDomain -User MyUser -Password MyPswd
View ArticleRe: Set NTP Server information using powerCLI
Like thisGet-VMHost | Add-VMHostNtpServer -NtpServer myntpserver
View ArticleRe: vSphere Enterprise Plus -> vCloud Enterprise Licensing Question
Thanks for the reply, to clarify there are no plans to violate our licensing agreement. I have approximately two weeks left in my evaluation period on the new hosts. I have already configured the new...
View ArticleUsing a compute-block model
What does it mean to use a "compute-block" model to design your infrastructure? Is it: -Standardizing the size of VMs to use only certain standard specfications of number of cpus, amount of ram, and...
View ArticleRe: Show active directory authentication information with PowerCLI
Try like thisGet-VMHost | Get-VMHostAuthentication |where {$_.Domain -eq $null} |Select @{N="Name";E={$_.VMHost.Name}}
View ArticlevCenter Operations Manager Standard with vCenter Server Appliance
Hi-Trying to figure out if I can install vcenter operations manager if I only have a vCenter Server Appliance installed (Dont have windows version of vcenter Server) I am running VSphere 5.1,...
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