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 […]
RFC: What needs do you see in the VMware community?
One of my personal goals for 2011 is to increase my contributions to the VMware community at large. If you’re visiting this site, you’ll know that I tend to blog fairly regularly about PowerCLI and how I leverage it at my current employer. While I will most likely continue to do so, admittedly, it’s tough […]
Managing VMware HA’s VM Monitoring: PowerCLI
In a previous post, I discussed my need to manage HA isolation response and restart priority settings on a per-VM level (separate from the cluster settings). This post is a continuation of that topic, but covers how to manage the VM Monitoring aspect of VMware HA with PowerCLI. At the time of writing, there are […]
VMware HA Restart Policies: PowerCLI
Recently I received a request to disable any automated HA actions on specific VMs across our infrastructure. To some folks that might sound a bit crazy, but there was good reason: an outside vendor supports an application and wanted to be involved any time the VM was powered up/down/etc. They have contractual obligations with business […]
File upload failed: VMware Update Manager
I ran into a really annoying error recently while trying to upload a host upgrade to VMware Update Manager. The upload kept failing with the error message "Failed to login. Error was: A web exception has occured during file upload". (Yes, I know that word isn’t spelled right. /Sigh @ VMware QA)