Tag: Automation
How to Change TTL Settings in Windows Active Directory – VirtuallyThatGuy
So what is TTL? TTL is the value that determines how long your current DNS settings are cached with Internet Service Providers. What that means for you: In practice, if your Internet Service Provider has the current IP…
Read More »How to Calculate pCPU to vCPU and pMem to vMem Ratio Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
In my time working for an Online betting company, I use to do a lot of capacity planning and cluster over commit analysis for our IT director. This sphered me on to try and automate the process…Thanks to…
Read More »How Does vCenter Communicates with ESXi (vPXA, HostD, vPXD) – TCP/UDP 902 – VirtuallyThatGuy
Welcome to VirtuallyThatGuy – today we are going to discuss how vCenter communicates with ESXi host … when the hosts are been managed by the vCenter , either in cluster or standalone Management. First of all what is…
Read More »How to Add Multiple ESXi Hosts to vCenter Using PowerCLI – Automation – VirtuallyThatGuy
Ever wondered how to add a bunch of ESXi Hosts to a newly or existing vCenter using powershell or automate with powercli? Well below script can help you achieve just that:
Read More »How to Automate Static DNS A Records with Powershell / PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
Welcome to VirtuallyThatGuy – This post will be looking at automation the creation of static DNS records in AD using a CSV.
Read More »How to Fix VMware Error PSC or VCSA in Maintenance Mode Ctrl+ D – VirtuallyThatGuy
So yesterday I restarted my Synology and completely forgot to shut down the lab gracefully. On restarting the VMs, both psc’s and vCSA started throwing up with errors “VCSA 6.5 ‘Failed to start File System Check’” –…
Read More »How to Create Powershell or PowerCLI Profile For VMWare Automation – VirtuallyThatGuy
How to Create a Profile in powershell. You can also checkout my previous post on “Back to Basics PowerCLI Setting Up Profile For Automation”. This will get you ready for our journey of automation.
Read More »VMware ESXi Logs Location And Use Cases – Virtually That Guy
This is reference article for VMware ESXi logs, their locations and use-cases. I often google them when troubleshooting as I can’t remember all apart from the obvious so here’s a list. Log File Location. Description. Troubleshooting. /var/log/auth.log. ESXi…
Read More »Windows Server Shortcuts For Administrators – VirtuallyThatGuy
I came across this in my archives not sure who from… probably in my early platform days… very useful shortcuts for Windows Administrators… and your average user like myself. Simply get to a run command (Start>Run) or a …
Read More »How to Create Virtual Machines VMs Using PowerCLI Automation – VirtuallyThatGuy
This is a quick script using CSV to create VMs from template
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