SNMP ESXi 5 problem
Hi, I'm trying to monitor several things of out ESXis through SNMP. I've enabled the snmp agent with: #vicfg-snmp --server 5.57.230.137 --username root --password 1234 --communities public #vicfg-snmp...
View ArticleRe: Script to output WWN Datacenter Cluster Host
Here is my revised code that gets everything and was checked to work. LucD's works just as well if you want to use his with one caveat that probably won't apply. If you happen to have a host that is...
View ArticleRe: detailed information with start-vm
If you only want to see a message when the start fails, you would be better off with a Try-Catch construct.Something like this $vmName="MyVM"try { $ProgressPreference="SilentlyContinue"...
View ArticleRe: CPU Latency
CPU Latency, i.e. %LAT_C in esxtop, includes: ready, cstp, ht busy time and effects of dynamic voltage frequency scaling, it doesn't include mlmtd though. Note that this is the same as CPU Contention...
View ArticleRe: Shrinking on guest running on SSD drive
Another option is to use sdelete to zero out unused disk space. After doing this compacting the VM should reduce the size as expected. André
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Safe to delete snapshot from failed vdp backup
Hi I had some backups fail last night and on 4 VMs I can see a snapshot that the VDP appliance made during the backup but was unable to remove automatically. (I assume)Since these are some pretty...
View ArticleRe: snapshot script help
Hi Monderick I think I can see where the problem is, where the line $Daysold = Get-VM $GuestName | Get-Snapshot | Select @{N="DaysOld"; e={((Get-Date) - $_.Created).Days}} has been added if the VM...
View ArticleRe: Reporting resource usage per VMfolder
This will give you the list per vCenter, provided you are not running in multiple mode, with the full folderpath (which can be handy in case of duplciate names).And it uses only 1 Get-VM call...
View ArticleSet-VMRecourceConfiguration -MemLimitMB to The currently configured memory.
Hi Guys I am am about to set the memory limit of all my virtual machines in a datacenter to Unlimited. With this: (pretty easy) Get-Datacenter -name "Target Datacenter" | Get-Cluster | Get-VM |...
View ArticleCan I create .ova image in Wmware Workstation
Hi All,I build a image in VmwareWorkstation (6.5). But one of my frind want to use these image in VMware ESXi. He want .ova format. So, Can I convert my file to .ova format, or can I create the image...
View ArticleThin PC - WSUS AV
Does a converted PC to a thin PC still require WSUS updates and Virus Software? Am I being wishful and naive thinking it is the same as a zero client now? Opinions? Thanks.
View ArticleRe: Set-VMRecourceConfiguration -MemLimitMB to The currently configured memory.
Hi John, you can use the next PowerCLI script for the reverse approach: Get-Datacenter -name "Target Datacenter" |Get-VM |ForEach-Object { $VM = $_ $VM | Get-VMResourceConfiguration | Where-Object...
View ArticleRe: Unable to Power On shared VM's in Workstation 8
Hi, Thanks for this investigation, I'm tried to find since many hours why it doesn't work and finally read this thread !I don't really understand why VMware do nothing about this issue. I tried on...
View ArticleRe: snapshot script help
I have take a bit more of a look at this, so ignore my previous post. The best way to acheive what you need is to remove the line: $Daysold = Get-VM $GuestName | Get-Snapshot | Select @{N="DaysOld";...
View Articlemigrate vm from intel cluster to amd cluster
Hello,I have an issue in my VM, windows server 2003 ent. 32bit (Citrix PS 4.5 applications) was hosted in vSpherere 5.1 ESXi cluster with Intel CPUs.the VM P2Ved from an Intel CPU server.The VM is with...
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VMware view get users
Hi I have to make a script for our VMware view environment that gets the amount of users that have logged in last week.but I'm stuck. i got so far with my script. $pss = New-PSSession "view-broker"...
View ArticleRe: Set-VMRecourceConfiguration -MemLimitMB to The currently configured memory.
Thanks RvdNieuwendijk, That is so much cleaner than what I was trying to do.
View ArticleNetwork Failover not working
We have a number of hosts on vmware 5.1On vswitch0 there are two physical NICs connected to the same vlan, there is also a VMotion network and management network. configured on this switch.However, if...
View Articlelicencia free perpetua
Buenos Dias:Estoy iniciándome en el mundo de vmware.He instalado la versión free de Esxi 5.1 pero me dice que tengo 60 Dias y me da una licencia para registrar el producto.después de esos 60 es...
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