VMware
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PowerCLI change network label for all VMs in a folder
Just a quick blurb and a useful one liner used to change all the Network labels for all virtual machines that existed in a vCenter folder. Â I had a situation in a lab where I imported numerous server VMs from…
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New HTML5 vSphere Web Client
With the new host UI that is present with vSphere ESXi 6 update 2, it gives us a taste of what the HTML5 web client might look like. Â But alas, we don’t have to wait! Â With the new fling available…
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Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 6.2
In rolling through quite a few upgrades recently, I wanted to posted some screenshots and process notes of upgrading vROPs 6.0.2 I had running in my environment to 6.2. Â The process is fairly standardized with VMware’s appliances and for the…
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Expecting 2 bootbanks found 0 VMware ESXi 6
I ran into a pesky issue yesterday when rolling through a slew of host updates in a few production clusters. Â I had one host that presented with some odd issues during the update manager remediation phase. Â After rebooting the particular…
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Update manager Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.0 update 2
Below are the simple and easy steps to get your ESXi 6.0 u1 or earlier installation to update 2 (3620759) version. Â Using update manager the process is very simple. Â Make sure before updating your hosts that you have updated your…
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VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 Host Client
With the release of ESXi 6.0 Update 2, one of the cool things with this release is VMware has included as RTM the Host Client which is written in HTML5 and allows administrators to have quick and easy access to…
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ESXi 6 Equallogic reclaim free space
If you are thin provisioning VMs in your environment with an Equallogic SAN attached to your cluster, you may find that you start receiving warning from SAN HQ or your group manager alerting which states [ID: 4.2] Caution: % In-use…
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How to tweak performance ESXi 6.0
We might not think about tweaking of the ESXi hosts themselves for performance. Â While there are other major areas of performance consideration in a vSphere cluster such as your storage IOPs, memory, and CPU resources, there are a few little…
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Create Linked Clone using PowerCLI ESXi 6
Guys, just wanted to write up a quick post on how to spin up a linked clone in ESXi 6.0 using only PowerCLI, this may come in handy if you are testing in a lab environment or have the need…
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Exclude hosts from vRealize Operations manager license
For those of you running vRealize Operations Manager, you may have a license for say only 6 sockets to monitor your environment. Â However, you may want to add hosts from your DEV or TEST environments to that same vCenter environment,…
