almost daily tech ramblings
For the few of us using Full Clones in their Horizon View environment, we’ve always run into the issue of not being able to reuse computer names like you can in a Linked Clone pool. However, I came across a VMWare KB that explains how to do this. I’d advise you fully read the KB … Read more
nothing like ending the week on a high note. Been running RecoverPoint for VM for the past few weeks with lack luster results with the same level of support. Replication was painfully slow along with a UI that was severely lacking in features. However, after setting up Zerto, which took about 15 minutes or so, … Read more
If you are using Horizon View and creating full clones, undoubtedly you’ve run into the issue of having the VM joining the domain but placed in the wrong OU. To get around this you either moved it yourself, have a GPO do it or some VBScript. After many searches and trial and errors, I’ve finally … Read more
I’m currently working on a project to move our server VM infrastructure from our old VMAX3 to a new all flash VMAX 250F SAN. So for my own sanity sake, and to save myself from one less Google search, below is what I used to sVmotion all VMs from the “old” LUN to the new LUN get-datastore … Read more
I was tasked earlier in the week to reclaim free space from VMs that have been deleted or from snapshots that have been consolidated. What I discovered was that from vSphere 5.0 to 5.5 had the ability but was disabled by default due to performance issues on the arrays during reclamation. However, reclamation can still … Read more
I recently installed MacOS High Sierra (10.13) on ESXi 6.0 for a developer I work with. The steps I used were from a number of sources found on the InterWebs. First off you need a Mac to download the installer. On the Mac, go to the App Store and and download MacOS. While that is … Read more
I was recently asked to get a list of all VMs in a certain VLAN along with OS and IP address. To do that… get-vdportgroup “<name of port group>” | get-vm | get-guest | select vm, ipaddress, osfullname | ft -autosize if you happen to be on a standard switch, replace get-vdportgroup with get-virtualportgroup -name … Read more
I’ve recently created an AppStack that included FireFox 52.4.1 ESR with the flash plugins and the VMware Client Integration Plugin. I first created 3 separate AppStacks, FireFox, FlashPlugins and FireFox with the VMWare Client Integration Plugin. Running all these plugins seem to run fine. It’s when I created an all in one AppStack I encountered … Read more
Check out the pricing models for VMC-AWS. This looks promising, however, I’m a little weary about the data transfer charges.
About 2 weeks ago, I noticed in vRealize Operations Manager that one of my VDI hosts was experiencing higher than normal CPU contention. What was more interesting was that 90% of all VMs on that host had high cpu usage. Moving a VM off the host, brought down CPU utilization, however, any VM moving to … Read more
