ResourcePool Reservation Script updated
The following script is based on Eric Sloof‘s Resourcepool calculator.
I modified it quit a bit. It now has, logging, can be run as a scheduled task, % of resource reservation for memory and cpu that can be set on a resourcepool. The script respects the reservertion set on a particular vm.
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VI Toolkit 1.5 Quick Reference Guide released
Today I sat next to Alan Renouf (the British guy 
) during the “Managing VMware with Powershell” session at VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes and he pointed me to the Quick Reference Guide he released Monday as a great hand-out for beginners as well as experts. I checked it out and it looks really helpfull!
He created the guide with cooperation of C.Shanklin, S.Herold, L.Dekens and C.Bunch.
Check out the VI Toolkit 1.5 Quick Reference Guide here.
Hint : VI Backup products don’t like bashrc customization !
Yesterday and today my colleague Rob Mokkink and I were getting very negative feelings towards the VizionCore vRanger Pro and Veeam Backup products, but like often, the problem existed behind the keyboard. But we prefer to call it an “undescribed feature” of these products.
We downloaded the latest versions of both products to see which product would fit best in our current environment and connecting to the Virtual Center servers went flawless but with neither of the 2 products we could connect to our ESX hosts. Errors that occured were errors that nobody experienced before, according to the product support forums. … Continue Reading
VMware Powershell script – HBA LoadBalancer script
One of the things you have to be carefull within a Virtual Infrastructure environment, just as in every other environment by the way, is how your LUNs are balanced over the HBA’s. Especially when you have a pretty dynamic infrastructure you might not always pay attention to this.
My colleague Rob Mokkink has made a pretty nice powershell script that balances LUN’s on the different HBA’s.
What it does :
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VMware Powershell script – Remove snapshots
On one of my previous articles Sven, who is actually a colleque of mine, asked if it would be possible to remove snapshots which were left unaccounted for. I reacted is a simple way: yeah, of course and as a matter of fact is is very easy. I really must say the guys from the VI Toolkit have done a great job on maki … Continue Reading
