Re: PowerCLI script to alert on snapshots in vSphere
With this testif($VMsWithSnaps -ne $null){the part of the script that sends out the email is only executed when there are snapshots present.If you add anelse {....} block on that If statement, you can...
View ArticleRe: PowerCLI Copy Template VMDK Between DataCenters
Can you make that cloning step part of the master update script ?If it's automated, you just fire the script and it will do all the steps for you. Btw you would need the .vmtx file and a few others as...
View ArticleBest Practice for View 5 Setup
Our current host is configured as follows: VMWare ESXi 5.0.02 X 2.4 GHZ Processor Sockets6 Processors cores per socketLogical Processors total = 24 (hyper threading enabled)Memory = 87670 MB We want to...
View ArticleRe: vMotion traffic isolation with VDswitch best practive question (ESXi 5.1)
Welcome to the Forums. In most environments, the vlan segregation will be sufficient. If you would like you could also make that a non-routable network.
View ArticleTransferring a virtual machine from one server to another
Hello -- I am going to be replacing the host system that currently has VMware server running with one virtual machine. The current system is a 32-bit Windows XP host, and the new system is a Windows...
View ArticleRe: Transferring a virtual machine from one server to another
If you are going to use VMware Server on the new host too, all you have to do is to copy the VM's folder over to the new host, register the VM and power it on.If the backup you do is done with the VM's...
View ArticleRe: Who Built the vm
Hey LucD, The script is pulling the data from the DB. is there a way where we can get thedata from the actuals. Also in my environment the logs get truncated after 24 hours i think. I am getting a...
View ArticleApplication consistent bacups, freeze scripts, enableuuid...
Hi all, I ran into the 2008R2 issue that failed backups unless I set the disc.EnableUUID flag to false. I understood that that would give me crash consistent backups but not application consistent...
View ArticleRe: What are differences between vCops 5.0 and vCops 5.6?
Check the release notes for 5.6 under what's new - http://www.vmware.com/support/vcops/doc/vcops-56-vapp-release-notes.html
View ArticleMissing Storage Adapter after replacement
I have an IBM eServer X3500 running ESXi 4.1.0 build 260247. We had the power button fail on the unit, which apparently caused it to shut down with no reason. Somehow, this (and the power failures we...
View ArticleRe: PowerCLI script to alert on snapshots in vSphere
So does this make sense, i added in the info listed in red. Connect-VIServer -server $vcenterserver$date = Get-Date$VMsWithSnaps = @(Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select VM,Name,Created,sizemb) # Make sure...
View ArticleRe: "Vcenter alarm: ESXi 5.1 Host connection failure/ Host not responding"
Hello SL, As I mentioned earlier, I upgraded the network drivers on my servers and I enabled HA back on the cluster. I haven't seen the error yet. Also the hosts are pinging perfectly fine after the...
View ArticleRe: Help speeding up this Vmware Netapp script i wrote - Rdm are mapped to...
This change decreased the running time from 37mins to 22mins. I am sure doing the same thing for the other functions will improve the running time even more
View ArticleRe: HQ5 adding users
That is correct, gsocgsoc. Role-based access control is a feature only in the commercial version. You can check that version out here and download it for a trial to see if it is worth it for you:...
View ArticleRe: Deleting historical vmware-*.log files
Score! This is what i was looking for. The only problem with the remove statement is that it is not handling folder names with spaces in there. For instance...if the VM folder name is V000SQL0100,...
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Re: How To Export the VM's List with the Folder Name which they are in ??
Thanks Dave ... I am not that good in CLI , i will try with this.
View ArticleRe: Volunteers needed: 2012 Mac users affected by 10.8.2 update issue
Still a chance to get in this? MacBookPro10,1 OS X 10.8.2 (12C3012)
View ArticleRe: 12 hours with version 5. I hate it. A gigantic step backwards.
Greetings bcarney, I agree with your conclusion regarding Fusion version 5. I also purchased the upgrade, as I have always done since Fusion 1, expecting it to be a solid application. As of today,...
View ArticleRe: Who Built the vm
I have created a vm and i ran script and i got the output. The report is coming form the database. can we script something that doesnt keep stress on vcenter database and pulls the data that i needed....
View ArticleRe: Vmware installation not recognizing hard drives connected to Intel...
I checked using esxcfg-scsidevs -a and it displayed Intel Corporation Patsburg 6 Port SATA AHCI controller and vmhba0, vmhba32, vmhba33, vmhba34, vmhba35, and vmhba36 with an address of 0:0:31.2 next...
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