almost daily tech ramblings
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
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
Had an interesting issue with a client today. He had created quite a few edge gateway firewall rules with success. However a few VMs in his VPGs could not get out to the internet. After much clicking around and testing different settings, it turns out that to allow all outbound traffic, the protocol on the … Read more
