I read a great post by Roger Lund today that discussed timekeeping in VMware virtual machines. That got me thinking, “How would this be handled with PowerCLI?” A blog post was born. 🙂
Archives
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 So, here it is in all of its outdated glory.
HA Alarms in vCenter: VMware
One of the best things about VMware is that, if everything is setup correctly, a cluster can experience a host failure or a host isolation with very little impact to the guests within that cluster. However, as nice as it is to experience a failure and not get paged at 3AM, it helps to know […]
Pinging multiple VM’s: PowerCLI
This script might not be handy for everyone, but in specific cases it can help you quickly determine which VM’s are not responding on the network. This is a slight modification from my Windows 2008 Guest Networking: PowerCLI article.
Windows 2008 Guest Networking: PowerCLI
If you’ve spent any time deploying Windows Server 2008 using VMware vCenter’s Customization Specifications, you’ve probably run into a weird issue where the OS doesn’t retain its default gateway after a reboot. This is actually a known bug in Windows 2008, and it occurs when the gateway is set with netsh. When that happens, a […]
Fun times with vDS: VMware
I ran into a very strange issue the other day, and I wanted to share it. On my biggest VMware cluster, we run 7 x IBM 3850 M2’s with 2 x 10GbE public, 2 x 10GbE private and 2 x dualport 4GB FC HBA’s. (Side note, these sorts of conversations remind me of the “gearheads” […]