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 …

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

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 …

Richard from VMware provided me with this link to a nice helpful toolbar for FF/IE. This toolbar gives you instant access to documentation, patches, live peer to peer chat and more. Special thanks to Richard! 🙂

Variables: $ServerIP = "YourESXiServerIP" $SysLog = "YourSyslogServerIP" Configure Syslog server using Powershell function syslog { $VMHost = Get-VMHost -Name $ServerIP Set-VMHostSysLogServer -VMHost $VMHost -SysLogServer $SysLog -SysLogServerPort 514 } Configure NTP server and restart NTP service …