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 [...]
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New version of ESX Healthcheck script
June 17th, 2009
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Long before people ever heard about the VI Toolkit the ESX Healthcheck ruled the earth. The ESX Healthcheck script used the esxcfg-* commands in the Service Console and dumped all the info into a html file.
Today a new version of ESX Healthcheck has been released(0.30) after two years of silence. It has taken them a [...]
Thanks vSphere, you will cost me my job!
June 11th, 2009
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As some of you know I did a health check in Saudi Arabia a couple of weeks ago. A health check is a relatively short engagement. A couple of days on-site and a day off-site for a report. When vSphere went GA I started thinking about all the things I discovered during this particular health [...]
Update: VMware Health Check Report 0.94
March 27th, 2009
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William Lam posted an update of his Health Check script on the VMTN Communities. I’ve been using this script extensively at several customer sites together with VIMA. Here are the release notes:
03-24-2009 – v0.9.4
Fixes:
-There was a bug reported by Duncan Epping and others regarding hosts that were appearing in the wrong cluster with respect to [...]
New VMware Healthcheck Script!
February 1st, 2009
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A couple of days ago I wrote an article about a “quick migration” script by William Lam.William seems to have some spare time on his hands or works 24 hours a day cause he just finished up a Health Check script. His script can be compared to the powershell healthcheck scripts and the Service Console [...]
Tripwire Configcheck
January 12th, 2009
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When I published my article on tools/scripts I use during a VMware Healthcheck I received a couple of emails on Tripwire’s Configcheck. I’ve been on a holiday for a couple of weeks so it took me a bit longer than usual to check out the product.
Configcheck can be downloaded for free. Configcheck is a Java [...]
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