Virtualisation | Cloud | Strategy
Revisiting VMware PowerShell Find VMs with Memory Reservations Back in March 2021 I wrote a quick one line PowerShell snippet to find memory reservations for a friend that wanted a simple and quick way to return objects that had reservations. I extended the one liner to also return VM objects that have either CPU or […]
Adventures with PowerShell, CloudConfig and vRealize Cloud Assembly This week I had a customer with some errors trying to use the following componenets together: PowerShell, CloudConfig, and cloudbase-init within a Cloud Assembly blueprint. To put it bluntly, the code was not running correctly. The customer could run the code locally without any issue. However, as […]
PowerShell – Discover Secure boot enabled Hosts As sometimes happens someone from the community got in touch to ask me the question below. “I’m currently banging my head against the proverbial trying to understand the Get-EsxCli command. What I am after is a listing of Secure-boot Enabled or disabled against all are ESXi hosts using […]
This week I spent some time working through the excellent guides from Saintdle to build new TKG management and workload clusters in Azure. I could write up my own how to and deployment guide here, However, Dean has done a fantastic job of documenting the deployment of the TKG resources within Azure, look no further […]
What is the limit on how many virtual machines that can be deployed at once? This came up in conversation, where we were considering where to place template storage and what the implications might be behind various choices. which leads to… Limits on Simultaneous Migrations The answer for how many virtual machines can be deployed […]
VMware Virtual Machines MAC addresses Occasionally I feel old, today was one of those days. The feeling snuck up on me during a conversation about MAC addresses. Someone mentioned a MAC address starting 00:50:56 and I said with confidence that it was a VMware virtual machine, which prompted the response “how do you know that?”. […]
vSphere HA Advanced Settings to Consider Working in the field I come across a lot of VMware products configurations, in addition to working directly advising how to meet architectural and business goals. After conversations this week I’d like to draw attention to two small but often overlooked configuration settings for vSphere HA and one that […]
I always get interesting questions, todays was ‘Can I Deploy Skyline Health Diagnostics in Workstation or Fusion?’ Looking through the documentation it is certainly not listed as a requirement to run on ESX or any other specified platform; “Software Requirement Photon OS 3.0 Revision 2 ISO Distribution (Minimal Version) Hardware Requirements Recommended settings for vSphere […]
Skyline Health Diagnostics I’m aware that during any incident with VMware estates one issue that adversely impacts teams particularly those that work in secure environments is the capability to share logs expediently with VMware Global Support Services. In some circumstances this could be due to the need for logs to have information redacted, data export […]
NSX-T password expired SDDC Manager rotation fails With VMware Cloud Foundation password management of SDDC components is handed off to the SDDC manager. The SDDC manager can rotate the passwords for VMware components such as ESXi, Virtual Centre and NSX-T. A very useful feature and a great way. of keeping admin and root accounts secure […]