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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘scripts’
vSphere Quick Start Guide – PowerCLI and PDF
January 10th, 2010
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Alan Renouf posted an article on the vSphere Quick Start Guide we recently wrote which triggered this article. First let me quote from Alan’s article:
I was responsible for adding all the PowerCLI throughout the book, basically if something is explained and there is an easy way to do it in PowerCLI, we have added a [...]
vscsiStats output in esxtop format?
December 17th, 2009
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This week we(Frank Denneman and I) played around with vscsiStats, it’s a weird command and hard to get used to when you normally dive into esxtop when there are performance issues. While asking around for more info on the metrics and values someone emailed us nfstop. I assumed it was NDA or at least not [...]
getvSwitchMacTable.pl
December 4th, 2009
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I’ve been following William Lam’s VMTN account in my RSS reader for a while as William regularly releases useful scripts. Lately he has been pumping iron and releasing new scripts or new versions of scripts on an almost daily basis. One of the most useful scripts that William released lately is “getvSwitchMacTable.pl”. Make sure to [...]
in the ghetto….
November 18th, 2009
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William Lam just updated two of his most popular scripts. If you haven’t looked at them yet, make sure you do as they are worth it. ghettoVCB(g2) enables the backup of virtual machines residing on either an ESX or ESXi host. ghettoVCBg2 is a complete rewritten and enhanced version of ghettoVCB or as William puts [...]
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide