Configuring Advance HA Settings with PowerCLI
In the TCC lab (and in many production environments) the default gateway filters ICMP packets. In order for HA to
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vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)
Hyperconverged, Virtualization, VMware, Citrix, Datacenter Administration, and more…
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PowerCLI Class References and Resources
I am currently teaching the VMware vSphere: Automation with vSphere PowerCLI [V4.x] as part of the VMware IT Academy program
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Morning vHealth Email From vSphere Health Check Report Script
The VMware vSphere Health Check Report is a free script written by @lamw (Check out his site virtuallyGhetto for some
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Resource Monitoring – vPanorama: Get the Big Picture (for FREE!)
Resource Monitoring – vPanorama: Get the Big Picture (for FREE!) Last week (or it may have been the week before) Jason Boche tweeted a question “Have you seen vpanorama.com?” Nope I had not, I had not even heard of it, so I checked out the site, downloaded the appliance, and spun it up in my lab.
Read MorePowerCLI Script to Shutdown My Home Lab
Ran across a PowerCLI script that can be used to shutdown your virtual infrastructure written by Alan Renouf and thought
Read MorevSphere 5 High Availability (HA) Configuration and Demonstration Video
Back in 2006 VMware HA was the technology that really sold me on virtualizing production workloads. I thought virtualization was a pretty neat technology that was well suited for testing and development but in a production environment it still seemed like you were putting all your eggs in one basket. A pre-sales VMware Engineer did a demo of HA by shutting down a running host to simulate a failure. Within a minute or so the VMs running on the host rebooted on another host and I have been hooked ever since.
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My Home VMware Lab
Several people have asked me about what I am using for a lab so I put together this post about the lab I used to study for the VCP 5 exam. I also used this lab set up when studying for my VCAP4-DCA exam.
Read MoreMy VCP 5 Exam Experience
This morning I sat for and PASSED the VMware Certified Professional Exam on vSphere 5 (VCP510). If I had to sum up the VCP 5 Exam in a single word that word would be tough.
Read MoreSetting Storage PSP to Round Robin using esxcli – vSphere 5
Setting all storage PSP to Round Robin using esxcli on vSphere 5.
Read MorePowerCLI to Check for VMware ToolsOK
Had an issue last night with setting a VM’s IP Address, DNS, and name using Invoke-VMScript after powering on the VM. The Invoke-VMScript would timeout because VMware Tools was not started.
Read MorevSphere 5 host stops sending syslog messages
I had some maintenance to do on my central syslog server and the server was down for about 30 minutes
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