As Sean Crookston mentioned in a blog post earlier today, he’s graciously allowed me to take on the task of hosting and continuing to maintain the VCAP-DCA study guide. For now, I’ve posted the Study Guide PDF as it can be currently found on Sean’s site. In the coming days, I will be posting each […]
NetApp Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit 1.3 released!
Rejoice, NetApp PowerShell users, for Toolkit 1.3 has dropped. There’s a bunch of new features and improvements in this release. Some new features that caught my eye are SSH Invocation and PowerShell provider. SSH Invocation (Invoke-NaSSH) allows you to send Data ONTAP CLI commands to your filer(s) via SSH. The PowerShell provider makes PowerShell drives […]
VMware Host Profiles: compliance issue and fix
I thought I’d take a moment to write down some frustrations I’ve been having with VMware Host Profiles, and how I resolved it. Before I get into that, let’s take a second to discuss what they’re supposed to do, and how you can get it in your environment. Host Profiles is a VMware vCenter feature […]
Managing VMware Tools advanced options: PowerCLI
The other day I was looking at my virtual machines’ VMware Tools status, and sadly, many of them are out of date. It seems like I spend a lot of my time on host patching, but the Tools update seems to fall by the wayside. Perhaps it’s the disruption to production that rebooting causes (and […]
Goodbye, VESI. Hello, PowerGUI!
The time has finally come to retire the VESI (Virtualization Ecoshell) and install the latest PowerGUI (v2.3.0). I’ve known for a while now that the VESI’s functionality was being merged back into PowerGUI. I’ve been putting it off for a bit while waiting for the VMware PowerPack to be updated for PowerCLI 4.1. Well, today […]