Poor Man’s ESX and ESXi image level backups aka GhettoVCB
DISCLAIMER: Don’t even think about trying this in a production enterprise environment or you will get laughed out of the building. Don’t say I didn’t warn you! This is meant for test labs and small...
View ArticleVMware vSphere PowerCLI scripts to make your ESX Admin life easier
VMware vSphere PowerCLI is an extremely powerful command line utility you can use to automate every aspect of your ESX environment. We’re talking every level from VMs, the host OS, storage,...
View ArticleHow to solve the VMware “PCI to PCI bridge detected” install loop
Have you ever P2Ved a server to an ESX cluster or converted a VMware Workstation VM into a VMware ESX 3.5 or vSphere 4.0 VM and come across this horrible Found New Hardware message that won’t go away....
View ArticleHow to Build a VMware vSphere VM Template for Windows Server 2008 R2
A co-worker and myself were asked to create a VMware vSphere (ESX) template for Server 2008 R2 and it’s not as easy as you might think. Over the course of a day and half and through much research and...
View ArticleHow to fix an IP address conflict on your network caused by a VM using VMware...
IP Address conflict? Have you narrowed the MAC down to being a VM in one of your ESX/vSphere clusters? Well use vSphere PowerCLI to figure out what device and adapter is causing the conflict. Example,...
View ArticleGetting the EMC PowerPath VE plugin to work with VMware Update Manager
PowerPath/VE replaces the native mulipathing plugin which gives you incredible performance gains when managing your EMC Clariion SANs. You have to push this plugin to all your vSphere/ESX hosts to take...
View ArticlevMotion fails saying the operation is not allowed in the current state
I’ve had this happen several times when an ESX host is stuck thinking it is going into maintenance mode from previous maintenance. You get an error saying it cannot complete the migration and “The...
View ArticleVMkernel ports change automatically when applying a Host Profile
Wonderful little vSphere bug we came across today. Let’s say you have a host with the following VMKernel ports configured on the vSwitch: -vmk1 = vMotion -vmk0 = Management Network When you create a...
View ArticleVMware PowerCLI script to set the Memory Resources limit on your VMs to...
Had a situation where I needed to reset every VM in one environment to Unlimited that had previously had a an explicitly set memory limit. Here is a nice VMware PowerCLI script that will reconfigure...
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