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 Shell authentication success and failure.
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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 command prompt (Start>Run>CMD [enter]) Admin Applet Command AD Domains and Trusts domain.msc Active Directory Management admgmt.msc AD…
How to Create Virtual Machines VMs Using PowerCLI Automation – VirtuallyThatGuy
This is a quick script using CSV to create VMs from template
Back to Basics PowerCLI Setting Up Profile For Automation – VirtuallyThatGuy
Welcome to VirtuallyThatGuy – This post will be looking at setting up your PowerShell profile and getting you ready for the journey of Automation
How to Increase The vCPU and vMem Memory Of a VM Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
So a colleague asked me. Is it possible to increase the memory and cpu sizes of a bunch of VMs using powershell? My answer was everything is possible with powercli so I told him let me have a look for you. First of all you can only increase memory or vCpu of a VM if…