A couple of weeks ago Alan Renouf contacted me and asked me if it was okay to turn some of our best practices mentioned in the book into PowerCLI code. I thought about it for 0.00001 seconds and yelled: hell yeah! Alan worked on it for a couple of days over the last couple of weeks and this is the result. Alan hasn’t been able to get the full book into his audit script, but knowing Alan he will get their in a couple of weeks (no pressure). Not only does the outcome of the audit script look really cool, it is also very useful. I will be working with Alan on refining and enhancing it over the next couple of weeks so check Alan’s website on a regular basis for updates. Once again, Alan great work…
0.00001 of a second? I love it Duncan but another 0 and you could have just made it 1 Microsecond and turn it into an educational blog post comparing Microseconds and Milliseconds. It would be useful for those having or purchasing NetApp storage or DFM.
I tested the script yesterday and it works wonderfully in my lab although it provided no recommendations. I can only assume my lab meets all HA and DRS deepdive recommendations.
Jas
It is a cool script. I have about 7 vCenters and they are all jacked up as far as non-standardization of the clusters. One thing I thought that was cool was that it simplified alot of the manual checking I would have to do like how it shows DRS advanced settings and tells you “as of right now” to check the book for the settings
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Its definitely a work in progress but some other things I would like to see(though I know its mostly based of the book)
Is if DRS/HA is disabled what the possible reason are or would be. Just an example would be that I found a cluster with DRS set to partial and HA disabled. Come to find out somoene created VM’s using the local datastore… Engineering #Fail – we already have really great storage – but just an example. Anyways, Thank for everything you do Duncan and FYI – I am buying this book today.