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…
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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…