I have for long been itching to blog about network teaming, load balancing and failover order. Let’s start off with the main benefit of NIC teaming. When uplinks are teamed, it can share the load of traffic between physical and virtual networks among some or all of its members, as well as provide passive failover…
Tag: PowerCLI
How to gather vCenter Inventory, Number of VMs, ESXi Hosts and VCSA Node ID Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
I am the biggest fan of using CSV for automating my VMware estate but wanted to try the HTML flavour for a change. Join me explore the possibilities of collecting these results in an html readable format.
How to Add Descriptions or Notes To Multiple VMs Using PowerCLI and CSV VMware- VirtuallyThatGuy
I had over 100 VMs to add descriptions or notes and then Move them to a folder so decided to write a one-liner for it. Hope it comes handy for someone looking to do similar task.
Getting Started with VMware Virtualisation 101 – Back to Basics For VMware Overview – VirtuallyThatGuy
We often ignore the basics and never really understand the whole spectrum of the SDDC (Software Defined Datacenter) product suite. Well my friend join me on exploring back to basics 101 on VMware Virtualisation. This post covers definitions and visual representations of most components of the SDDC stack. Credit to VMware vSphere Tutorial and the vsphere web…
How to find the number of VMs running on a Datastore Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
I wanted to check the heavy hitters on my Datastores and redistribute the load accordingly. I could use datastore cluster (you need enterprise plus license for this)…. Or alternantively vRealize Operation Manager… but thought why not use powercli? Below is what I came up with… In a larger environment (not my homelab) SDRS is your…
Automate VMtools Upgrade For Bulk VM List Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
This post is about upgrading multiple VMtools using powercli. I will start off with what is VMtools and why are they so important to be updated and looked after with love. Overview of VMware Tools (With my Comments) VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machines guest operating…
How to Set VM Hot Plug For Memory and CPU (vCPU and vMem Hot Plug) Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
Imagine one of your VMs struggling for compute resource and you want to add more resource without powering off the VM? Well VMware hot add and hot plug allows you to do just that. Hot-add vMem and hot-plug vCPU should allow you to easily add vMem and vCPU as necessary while your virtual machine is…
How Does vCenter Communicates With ESXi Server? – Plus Topology Diagram – 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 the difference between Vsphere , vCenter and ESXi host? Many at times people new to virtualisation get…
How to Open VM (Virtual Machine) Console Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
Welcome to VirtuallyThatGuy – and today we are going to be looking at how to open the VM console from the PowerCLI or PowerShell. I never really thought about using the open-vmconsolewindow cmdlet until a colleague asked the question during lunch break. I have used it in the past when the cmdlet was first introduced…
Some Gotchas in Deploying vSphere Replication – VirtuallyThatGuy
Having recently upgraded my home lab, I decided to try out the new vSphere replication 6.5. So I downloaded the iso, extracted and started deploying. Went for a drink only to return to a swarm of errors. Don’t you hate it when you have to send minutes figuring out what went wrong? The new appliance…