As you may be aware, VMware’s Update Manager (VUM) does a great job of remediating vSphere hosts when they’re in DRS-enabled clusters. You select the cluster you want to remediate, verify the correct baselines are attached, and click Remediate. VUM will automatically evacuate each host in turn, then patch, reboot, repeat as necessary until the […]
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Beyond this point lies a lot of content that is likely irrelevant, but I felt that it would be a waste to delete it. So, here it is in all of its outdated glory.
ESXi 4.1 remote log collection with VMware vMA 4.1
When I first decided to blog about this, I started doing some Googling for resources. I ran across an excellent post by Simon Long that talked about using vMA’s vilogger capabilities for remote logging, but his blog post was written with 4.0 in mind, and didn’t line up exactly with how things are done with […]
OVA’s and OVF’s: What are they, and what’s the difference?
Chances are good that you’ve run into an OVF/OVA from a variety of sources: as a packaged application or appliance from a vendor, as a download from the VMware community appliances site, or even while physically moving virtual machine files from one location to another. I admit, when I first started administering VMware, I didn’t […]
Cluster Evacuation & Reboot without DRS: PowerCLI
If you’ve upgraded to vSphere 4.1 and have Standard licensing, you may have noticed that vMotion is now supported at that licensing level. Previously, vMotion was only available with Enterprise licenses and above. (Storage vMotion is still a feature only available with Enterprise & Enterprise Plus.) One of the nice features about rebooting hosts in […]
DHCP Scope changes with PowerShell, PowerCLI, and netsh
Scenario: You administer multiple physical locations, all with their own DNS and DHCP servers, hosted on VMware. Due to architectural changes to the environment, you need a quick & efficient way to make changes to the DNS Server options in DHCP.