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March 25, 2014 Hersey

Saving Searches with the vSphere Web Client

The ability to search vCenter inventory from the vSphere Client has been available for at least as long as I have been using it but each time you wanted to search for something you had to recreate the query. The Web Client provides the same search functionality adding the ability to also save commonly used searches. This allows for regularly used queries to be recalled quickly using the Web Client.

January 16, 2014 Hersey

Virtual Machine Snapshots – BE CAREFUL!!!

Snapshots are a great tool but it is important that you monitor the snapshots to ensure they do not grow too large. This post covers some different options that are available for monitoring snapshot usage.

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September 6, 2013 Hersey

PowerCLI Script to Start VMs in a Predefined Order

The discussion lead to what happens if you lose everything, say in the event of a power failure or something like that. We did not get to deep into designing the infrastructure correctly to make sure things like that do not happen we focused on the “Well what if it did?”

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May 30, 2013 Hersey

Manually Adding a User With the Administrator Role to the vCenter VPX_ACCESS Table

During the install the pop up warned me, but I was sure that the Domain Admin group had been configured with Administrator access (it was not). The upgrade finished successfully but it had deleted the local Administrator group which was configured with Administrator access. Oh no!!!

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April 22, 2013 Hersey

vCenter Server Database Upgrade Hangs

I created a backup of the original vCenter database and it was giant, a little over 15GB. I thought that was odd but for whatever reason I did not really dig into it much (until after the upgrade failed later in the story).

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December 8, 2011 Hersey

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.

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September 29, 2011 Hersey