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    Finding all VM’s with an ISO mounted using PowerCLI.

    26/12/2023 - By Richhimself

    If you ever need to find which of your VM’s have an ISO mounted here’s a quick PowerCLI command you can run. Get-VM | FT Name, @{Label=”ISO file”; Expression = { ($_ | Get-CDDrive).ISOPath }}

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    Creating an SQL Cluster on VMWare

    26/12/2023 - By Richhimself

    I’ve been working on a SQL cluster for a few weeks now and thought I’d share the build process for anyone that wants to do the same. Configuration Differs depending on Single or Multi-host Single Host – Multinode Creating the First Cluster node virtual machine. Creating the Second cluster node…

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    vciInstallUtils.exe has stopped working – VMWare Update Manager Install

    26/12/2023 - By Richhimself

    Update this is still present in 6.5* Just a quick one this time. If every time you try and and install VMWare Update Manager you get the following error :- You may find this is due to your password having special characters in it 🙂 I recommend creating another account…

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    Article on – Do Jumbo Frames Improve vMotion Performance? – Wahl Network

    26/12/2023 - By Richhimself

    I’ve been considering this for some time, this was the final article that helped me decide, the idea is good but its not that straightforward! Do you want to drive further performance from vMotion with jumbo frames? This post covers some real numbers from performance based speed tests. Source: Do…

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    ESX 5.5 Host Disconnects 60 seconds after adding to vCenter.

    26/12/2023 - By Richhimself

    ESX 5.5 Host Disconnects 60 seconds after adding to vCenter. Today I’ve been creating a new network for our ESX Hosts and encountered this error. I could add the host to vCenter but after a minute it would come up “disconnected” I could still access the host directly via web browser, sphere console…

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    Private VLAN’s on VMWare vNetwork Distributed Switch (PVLAN on vDS)

    26/12/2023 - By Richhimself

    Private VLAN’s on VMWare vNetwork Distributed Switch (PVLAN on vDS) I realised I knew very little about the PVLAN for the vDS’ I started going through and finding some informational videos so decided to put them all in one place take hopefully make it easier for other people. (None of…

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    Setting up a Isolated vSphere Network

    26/12/2023 - By Richhimself

    I had to setup an isolated network to do some testing today, I decided to create a quick video 🙂 This is a helpful way to create a non-routable sandbox network. Original VMWare Article Here

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    VMWare Data Protection /var 0% free disk space.

    26/12/2023 - By Richhimself

    Our Veeam ONE Monitor showed the following error for our Data Protection Appliance 5.5 “Amount of free disk space “/var” (0%) is below a defined threshold (5%). Current free disk space is 0.00 GB” I connected to the console via PuTTY and found the alert was correct /var was out…

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    How To Migrate vSphere Machines To vCloud Air

    26/12/2023 - By Richhimself

    Trying to understand how to migrate machines to vCloud Air is an interesting subject, especially if you want to move on-prem to cloud. I can’t take any credit for this here’s a useful guide Hopefully this should give you some help.

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