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 { …

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 …

I found this software during my search for a management solution for a virtual appliance farm running hundreds of CentOS based virtual machines. As CentOS is binary compatible to RedHat it makes sense to use a RedHat satellite server equivalent for software management. Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems …

A new version of the open source virtualization software Proxmox VE was released! Change log: New 2.6.32 kernel including OpenVZ support, based on latest Debian Squeeze Kernel Removed KSM (OpenVZ does not support KSM) DRBD tools: update to drbd 8.3.7 New KVM user-space tools (0.12.5) New OpenVZ user-space tools (vzctl …

I’m still busy @work. We are working on 3 new virtual environments. Therefore I have no time for my side but I will start to post new interessting things asap 🙂 New Powershell code snippets, ideas about a control instance using Powershell, Apache and PHP for VMware and Bugs in VMware vSphere …

Connect-VIServer -server VCSERVER -User USER -Password PASSWORD $vms = Get-VM | Sort Name $on = 0 $toolsOk = 0 $toolsOld = 0 $toolsNotInstalled = 0 foreach ($vm in $vms){ if ($vm.PowerState -like "PoweredOn"){ $vmview = $vm | Get-View $toolsstatus = $vmview.Guest.ToolsStatus $toolsrunningstatus = …

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 …

I found the following side about the vCO. They have created a very good tutorial to create a simple self service workflow. I’m going to setup a vCO in the next days. After this I will create a self service workflow to request virtual reverse proxy appliances. www.vcoteam.info