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…
App Volumes 2.10 released
On november 24th VMware released App Volumes 2.10 wich includes support for Windows 10. Besides the added support for Windows 10 there are about 12 issues resolved and several new features are added: IPv6 and VMware vMotion Support – Greater network compatibility in enterprise environments with IPv6…
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…
VMware Samples Exchange goes into beta
When searching for scripts that relate to VMware (PowerCLI, Perl VILib, etc), you usually end up on a blog or a forum post somewhere, probably pointing towards GitHub for an example script. VMware themselves didn’t have a proper place for example scripts, like most vendors…
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…
Horizon View: Virtual Disk Digest?
Recently I was at a customer that is using VMware Horizon View for some time now, and one of the administrators asked me what the task “Configure Virtual Disk Digest” means. Once I explained this to him I thought why not write it down in…
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…
Getting started with vRealize Log Insight
VMware has a lot of tools these days. From the tools for virtualization all kinds of workloads to managing all that in an automated manner. In that last category VMware also has a tool called vRealize Log Insight. vRealize Log Insight, together with vRealize Operations gives…
No network connection after cloning Linux VM
While upgrading our VMGuru environment I ran into an issue with the network connectivity of a cloned Linux VM. Erik wrote about it earlier when he was restoring a VCSA from backup. I had a similar issue after cloning the VM. On of the first things I did was…
The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld – Part 2
Following up on my post The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld – Part 1 (read that before starting this one), I’m going to continue rambling on about some of the awesome future networking ideas floating around during VMworld. Disclaimer: this post is also based…
NVIDIA GRID 2.0 licenses?
Before I get into the titel of this article, let me first give some context. During VMworld in the US NVIDIA announced the 2.0 version of NVIDIA GRID. NVIDIA GRID 2.0 delivers unprecedented performance, efficiency and flexibility improvements for virtualized graphics in enterprise workflows. With GRID 2.0 NVIDIA…