Posts Tagged ‘VMWare’

Whenever you need to install a new box with ESX, there’s the struggle with matching physical ports to VMware devices. Which network adapter becomes vmnic0?, Which hostbus adapter becomes vmhba1?, etc. Especially when you have a lot of network adapters this can be confusing and you can’t connect to the device over the network unless you [...]

Watching the twittersphere for vExpert announcements, I was intrigued by the need for people to be on a list. A lot of people contacted me that they were missing from the vExpert twitter avatar list on my vExpert 2010 post. I also saw many people ask Maish Saidel-Keesing to include them on his VMware vExpert [...]

Today I woke up and found out that I was rewarded as a VMware vExpert 2010. I’m deeply honored to be designated for this award and to become part of this selected group of great minds. I want to thank VMware and the vExpert judges for selecting me. A special Thank You goes to John Troyer, the [...]

Vizioncore just released the newest version of the vEcoShell (Virtualization EcoShell). As a user and developer of VMware PowerCLI scripts I almost use the vEcoShell on a daily basis. The amazing thing about the vEcoShell is that you don’t need any scripting experience to use PowerCLI scripts and examples found on the web. If you [...]

Before upgrading my Virtual Center 2.5 server to vCenter Server 4.0, I decided to temporarily disable HA and DRS. This is just a precaution taken to avoid waiting for cluster reconfigurations right after the upgrade. Because I hate doing things more than once by hand, I used PowerCLI for this.
Although no rocket science you can use the [...]

Everybody backups their environment, but how many do actually test if the backup can be restored? When you do, you know how time consuming this process is and even when you do a test restore, you are actually only testing that particular backup. You can’t possibly test every backup in your environment.
Veeam, an industry leader [...]

I ran into an issue with a vCenter database recently, where I couldn’t see historical performance data anymore in the past week-, month- and year-view. When investigating it, it turned out that I couldn’t see any performance statistics older than 24hrs. I also took a look at the database and it turned out that the [...]

This is a follow up on a post I did a couple of weeks ago to create a mapping table between Windows- and VMware hard disks. In another previous post PowerCLI: Get WMI info from isolated guests, I showed you how to get WMI info from a guest without using the guest’s network. I used this [...]

Last friday VMware released Virtual Center 2.5 update 6.  Most interesting new feature is that it now supports customization for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
From the Release notes:
What’s New
Guest Operating Systems Customization Improvements
Customization support for the following guest operating systems has been added in this release:
For more complete information about supported guests [...]

A few weeks back I posted an article on matching Windows and VMware disks. Unfortunately this would work only if you could remotely query WMI information from that VM. If you have any VM that’s isolated or behind a firewall, you are out of luck. This bothered me, so I started looking for a uniform [...]