PowerShell Friday: Setting Reservations with PowerCLI
When configuring your virtual machines sometimes you want to set reservations. Like I said in the article about adding memory: You can go into the vSphere Client to change the configuration, but where is the fun in that? Why not do everything from the command line? And preferably…
Installing the Linux agent for Log Insight
As I explained in an earlier post all systems push their data to the central server, or by an agent in the operating system. Just like the Windows agent you can download the Linux agent from the Log Insight interface. Go to the admin->Administration panel -> Agents. In…
PowerShell Friday: Christmas Special
Tomorrow is Christmas, so this post is a day early, but I wanted to give you something you can play with when you’re done eating, drinking and getting merry. That’s the reason I won’t be giving you PowerShell or PowerCLI scripts that have anything to do…
PowerShell Friday: Adding Memory with PowerCLI
Just before the holidays we’ve got a small PowerCLI onliner for you. Nothing fancy, but still useful. There are times that your virtual machine doesn’t have enough memory. Yes, you can go into the vSphere Client to change the memory configuration, but where is the fun…
PowerShell Friday: Adding CPU’s with PowerCLI
Sometimes you need to add CPUs to your virtual machines. Adding CPU’s is easy on a virtual machine. Of course you can do this from the vSphere Client, where you can select the number of CPUs and the number of cores per CPU. If you…
Installing the Windows agent for Log Insight
Log Insight can collect data from various sources as I explained earlier. All systems push their data to the central server, or by an agent in the operating system. There are two agents available for deployment, a Linux agent and a Windows agent. Both agents…
PowerShell Friday: Snapshots
Virtual machine snapshots are useful for sysadmins, since they preserve the state of a virtual machine’s virtual disk and, optionally, virtual memory before upgrading an application for example. VM Snapshots are also taken by a lot of backup applications for VMs at the start of the backup and…
PowerShell Friday: stopping VMs
This weeks PowerShell Friday is about stopping VMs with PowerCLI. If you want to gracefully shutdown your VM, which I think you will do most of the time you are better of using Shutdown-VMGuest . This will use the VMware tools to gracefully shutdown your VM. Just as…
Configuring Log Insight for vSphere Integration
In this article I will help you to set up your first source, vRealize Log Insight for vSphere integration. vRealize Log Insight can integrate with vSphere to automatically import events from vCenter server and logs from ESXi hosts. If you missed the first articles in the…
PowerShell Friday: Starting VMs
With PowerCLI you can manage and automate your VMware infrastructure from the command line. After you connect to vCenter you can do all kinds of nifty stuff. For example it is very easy to start virtual machines. You can use the complete name of the VM,…
ThinApp 5.2 released with Windows 10 support
November 19th VMware released ThinApp 5.2. One of the most important changes is that it now supports Windows 10. These blocking issues are resolved in ThinApp 5.2 Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 crashes at launch on 32-bit Windows 10 machines. Runtime error is displayed at the launch…
PowerShell Friday: Connecting to vCenter
For our first cmdlet on PowerShell Friday we are going to connect to vCenter. Before we can do anything useful on an ESXi host or vCenter we need to connect to the server. Connecting to vCenter or an ESXi host is done with the command:…
vRealize Log Insight quick interface Walkthrough
In the last post I described why log monitoring is important and what you can use to monitor your logfiles and how you can deploy vRealize Log Insight. In this post I will walk you through the interface. It will be a short post, since the…
VMware Fling – Horizon Service Installer for NSX
Services and Service Groups for Horizon View does not ship with NSX 6.2 today. Administrators must manually add the Horizon-related services (source, destination, protocol, port information) into NSX. This is a time consuming process and lends itself to errors. Since last week you don’t have…
PowerShell Friday: Getting Started with PowerShell and PowerCLI
PowerShell was release on November 14, 2006 and is now (or should be?) one of the major components in an admins life. If you’re just getting started on Windows or are new to the whole scripting and automation scene, this one is especially for you. I…