I've run into an issue lately in my VMware environment that really frustrated me because I didn't understand why it was happening, and because there wasn't an obvious way of determining that it wouldn't happen again. The problem I'd been having was … [Continue reading] about Finding mismatched NFS datastore UUIDs: PowerCLI
Controlling VMware Update Manager patch staging: PowerCLI
As you may be aware, VMware Update Manager has functionality built-in that allows the VMware administrator to stage patches to hosts, for remediation at a later time. There are a number of downsides to the way this functionality is implemented in the … [Continue reading] about Controlling VMware Update Manager patch staging: PowerCLI
Automating VMware cluster remediation without DRS: PowerCLI
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 … [Continue reading] about Automating VMware cluster remediation without DRS: PowerCLI
Setting up SFTP on Windows 2008
Recently, I had a task assigned to me to get SFTP up and running on a Windows 2008 server. I did some Googling and found a few resources, but only by combining the various bits of information was I able to get it up and running. I thought I'd throw … [Continue reading] about Setting up SFTP on Windows 2008
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, … [Continue reading] about ESXi 4.1 remote log collection with VMware vMA 4.1