Now I had the time to setup an vSphere 5 vCenter on Windows (MS Sql Express DB) and 4 HP servers. Setup was quite easy of vCenter no real issue. Only the SQL Express was a not working directly, but with some Google all issues could be resolved. I have than upgraded all 4 servers from 4.1 to 5 using the iso image. 3 of …

Yesterday I have ordered the new HP Microserver N40L. This will extend my existing Homelab as second ESXi server. Hardware specs HP Microserver N40L: AMD Turion II Neo N40L (1.5GHz) 2GB Memory installed (up to 8GB possible) 1x 250GB SATA HDD installed (up to 4 SATA HDD possible) Embedded NC107i PCI Express Gigabit …

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.

Script to create a report about the VMware Tools status: Sample Output: Total VMs: 527 Total powered on: 474 Total powered off: 53 ToolsOK: 140 ToolsOld: 227 ToolsNotInstalled: 106 DisConnect from Virtual Center Set-PSDebug -Strict $VIServer = "VCENTERIP" Connect-VIServer -server $VIServer -User USERNAME …

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 }

This is a small scriptlet to copy the ResourcePools (just the ResourcePools no settings or VM’s) of Cluster1 to Cluster2 Connect-VIServer -server VCENTER-IP -User USERNAME -Password PASSWORD $respools = Get-ResourcePool -Location CLUSTER1 foreach ( $respool in $respools ) { Write-Host $respool New-ResourcePool …

This script node will open a small window with a drop down menu with all your VM’s listed. Select one and click on OK. The script will collect some information and then display them. Script node: if ($global:defaultviservers) { #Generated Form Function function GenerateForm { …