After the 3 days of vSphere 5 training. I would like to point out 3 interesting components. First of all the new vCenter appliance. This is based on SUSE linux. This is a really cool thing for the private Homelab as it is ready to use including an database and there are no Windows and MS SQL licenses necessary. Just …

######################################################################################################## # Steps to use the script: # # 1st: create a folder on an shared datastore # # 2nd: adjust the content of the variable $FolderName to the name of the folder created in step 1 # # 3rd: adjust the content of the …

VMware released the 1st information about the new upcoming vSphere5 including an new license model. vSphere 5 Overview vSphere 5 Pricing A full review of vSphere 5 will follow later as I’m currently very busy with our vSphere 4.1 environment and the development of an fully automated management/support system.

First you need to connect to a vCenter: Connect-VIServer -Server VCENTERIP -User USERNAME -Password PASSWORD Get-VMHost | Sort | Select Name, @{N="FC Device";E={[string]::Join(",",(($_ | Get-View).Config.StorageDevice.HostBusAdapter | where{$_.GetType().Name -eq "HostFibreChannelHba"} | …

This is a small function to rename the local datastore of a fresh installed ESXi server from datastore1 to SERVERNAME-local. $ServerIP="192.168.4.3" function renameds { $vmHost = Get-VMHost -Name $ServerIP $dsname = $vmHost + "-local" Get-Datastore -Name datastore* | Set-Datastore -Name $dsname }

If you force problems with reconfigure HA on a ESXi server in a HA Cluster. A possible solution to resolve this is to uninstall the vpxa and the ha-agent. This can be done using the unsupported mode. Steps: set ESXi in Maintenance Mode disconnnect ESXi from Virtual Center remove ESXi from Virtual Center connect with …

We found the root cause for our PSOD. VMs with a VRAM setting higher then 30MB. VMware KB: 1011971 Workaround: – find all virtual machines with VRAM settings higher then 30MB – shutdown these VMs and reconfigure the VRAM settings (<30MB) - start VMs

Connect-VIServer -server VCENTER -User USER -Password PASSWORD $vms = Get-VM foreach ($vm in $vms) { $vmview = $vm | Get-View foreach ($device in $vmview.config.hardware.device) { if ($device.Key -eq 500){ $test = $device.DeviceInfo.Summary $result = $device.videoRamSizeInKB if ($result -cgt 30000){ $mb = $result/1024 …

We have a major incident in our vSphere Environment on 2 ESXi server running ESXi 3.5 Patch 238493. These servers are HP Dl585 G5 with 4x Quad Core AMD Opteron 8356 and 64 GB Memory. Everytime VM’s getting migrated to this server using VMotion and DRS the server crashed. I have opened a Support Request on VMware site. …

I found a very good iphone app to manage a vmware environment. This app is called vmanage and is available for 2.39€ which is quite cheap. You have to configure your vCenter or ESXi server in the following way. Start testing … if you need a VPN connection start this first and after you have successfully opened the …