One of the blogs I’ve always enjoyed reading is ICT-Freak.nl. ICT-Freak is maintained by Arne Fokkema. Unfortunately Arne used to mix Dutch and English posts which means his blog is not aggregated on Planet V12n. This is why I wanted to point you out to the following awesome article: With the release of vSphere VMware introduced a new hardware level [...]

Got a question today on how to change the licensing server from the Service Console or how to add the license server via a scripted install. Of course “vmware-vim-cmd” is the keyword here. If you want to use a license server you will need to use the first option, if you want to add a license file you will need [...]

After I wrote the licensing server post a couple of days back one of my colleagues(Thanks Horst!) was so kind to email me the following script. What it basically does is check every server for the availability of the license source. Of course it can be improved by adding for instance a check to see if the license service is [...]

I just received an email about an excellent article on VI:OPS. The article is titled “Automating Network Setting Changes and DNS Updates on Recovery Site Using VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager“. It includes a PDF file which contains a description for configuring automatic IP-Changes but also includes batch files for DNS updates. When performing site failover, IT administrators are often [...]

I just noticed this awesome work by LucD. He developed two scripts which can import and export DRS affinity rules. Especially in large environments or environments that have multiple affinity rules this is an excellent solution. Take a look at the link above for more details. Luc posted the script half way down the topic in text but also added [...]

I already blogged about this awesome healthcheck script by William Lam a couple of times and it just has been updated to version 1.0. The following details have been added to the already extensive list: New New licensing format/summary New EVC Enabled information New Cluster VM monitoring New Cluster Host monitoring New # of VMotions within a cluster New Datastore [...]

Increasing the size of a disk when a snapshot exists or deleting the wrong folder on your vmfs volume, it’s something that probably has happened to all of us. This usually means that you will either need to edit the current vmdk header file or even recreate it. Although it’s not a difficult task it’s still error prone cause it’s [...]