I blogged about this almost two months ago and just on Luc’s blog that the release date has been set and the cover art was released. I wanted to remind all of you the book that is one of a kind, VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere. Release date: 28th of March Authors: Luc Dekens, Alan Renouf, Glen Sizemore, Arnim [...]

I needed to run an appliance inside VMware Fusion on my Mac, the appliance was in OVF format. VMware Fusion currently does not support this format and requires you to convert the image with a tool called ovftool which can be downloaded at the following location: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/automationtools/ovf Conversion is as simple as: ./ovftool “source.ovf” “target” Optionally you could use parameters [...]

I was just answering some questions on the VMTN forum when someone asked the following question: Should I upgrade our VMFS luns from 3.21 (some in 3.31) to 3.46 ? What benefits will we get? This person was referred to an article by Frank Brix Pedersen who states the following: Ever since ESX3.0 we have used the VMFS3 filesystem and [...]

Last week I wrote about the different datamovers being used when a Storage vMotion is initiated and the destination VMFS volume has a different blocksize as the source VMFS volume. Not only will it make a difference in terms of reclaiming zero space, but as mentioned it also makes a different in performance. The question that always arises is how [...]

I was able to connect my PowerCLI instance without any problems to my vCenter, until all of a sudden I got the following error: Connect-VIServer : 8/12/2010 11:51:36 Connect-VIServer Could not connect using the requested protocol. I discovered that this was due to a change in the Proxy Server settings on the client. After removing this proxy address everything was [...]

I wanted to output some data with PowerCLI using the Out-GridView cmdlet. Reason for using this cmdlet is that I needed to create an index for the .vmdk’s  attached to the virtual machines and the number varies, however I encountered the following error on my system: Out-GridView : To use the Out-GridView cmdlet, install the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment [...]

As you hopefully have read I have been busy over the last weeks with a new project. This project is all about enabling migrations to ESXi. I wrote two articles for the ESXi Chronicles blog of which the first article describes the scripted install procedure and the seconds gives some additional advanced examples of what is possible in these scripts. [...]