I never noticed this set of scripts to be honest but Anne Holler(VMware Employee) posted these about a year ago. What the scripts do is change various DRS/DPM settings to pro-actively manage your environment and change DRS and DPM behaviour based on expected workload. Proactive DRS: setDRSAggressive.pl The script setDRSAggressive.pl sets various DRS operating parameters so that it will recommend rebalancing [...]
Two of my colleagues just launched a new website. It is probably one of the few vCenter Orchestrator Blogs out there and definitely worth following. Christophe & I (Burke) have launched a new website at http://www.vcoteam.info that we hope to use to help educate and encourage the adoption of Orchestrator for VMware automation tasks. One of the first articles explains [...]
Rob de Veij has just released a new version of RVTools: Version 2.9 (April 2010) On vHost tab new fields: Vendor and model. On vHost tab new fields: Bios version and Bios release date. On vInfo tab new field: VM overall size in bytes (visible when using VI API 4.0) On vSnapshot tab new fields: Snapshot filename and size in bytes [...]
Just received an update on the Kodiak project Bluebear has been working on for a while now. For those who are not familiar with Kodiak, it is a cross platform virtualization management application. Kodiak is based on flex and had a great start. Unfortunately as time passed by it went completely silent around Kodiak and I just received the news [...]
One of my customer asked for the download links for all the sysprep packages they needed for a project. I did a quick google and these are the links. Might come in handy one day: Windows 2000 – 32Bit Windows 2003 – 32bit Windows 2003 – 64bit Windows XP – 32bit Windows XP – 64bit
William Lam just released version 4 of his Health Check Report. I guess I can talk about it for hours but the sample report that William provides says more in just a few clicks than I can in 1000 words. Below you can find an outtake from the release notes. I clipped it as it was too long, but you [...]
We’ve spoken about Resource Pools a couple of times over the last months and specifically about shares. (The Resource Pool Priority-Pie Paradox, Resource Pools and Shares.) The common question I received was how can we solve this. The solution is simple: Custom Shares. However, the operational overhead associated with custom shares is something most people want to avoid. Luckily for [...]
