Upgrading Network Insight 6.2 to 6.6
Trying to upgrade to 6.6.0 from 6.2.0 in one shot unfortunately is not allowed... so i downloaded 6.4.0 and gone ahead and installed that first. Update took about an hour…
Exporting VM Hard Disk Information
I got a question from a colleague if we could export the disk information of a certain vm which had 37 vmdk's and they needed the size and names of…
Comparing DRS groups for double entries
I was in need of a way to check if a VM is placed in 2 DRS groups so i made a little script to read out the vm cluster…
Usefull PowerCLI scripts
Last couple of days i have been making some small but very usefull "scripts" to perform some tedious tasks where i did not feel like clicking in the GUI to…
Set ProductLocker Location with PowerCLI
Something i struggled with in the past is setting the productlocker, hassle with scripts and ssh and avoiding host reboots. Today we had to configure another 20 hosts with this…
vSAN Resync Dashboard for vROPS
I needed to get more insight into what is happening with resyncs on vSAN cluster for my customer so i decided to look to vROPS to get that and this…
VXRail Manager Mystic login fails
ran into an issue today where we could no longer login with the mystic account, turns out there were too many failed attempts. This can be fixed by logging in…
vCenter upgrade Case sensitive hostname
When upgrading a vCenter from 6.7 to 7.0.2 today i ran into something i haven't seen before.... here you see a difference in lower and uppercase a quick google search…
TCE on Rocky 8.5
Start with a new vm and Rocky 8.5 from here https://rockylinux.org/download/ Install Docker with this manual https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/centos/ sudo usermod -aG docker $USER sudo systemctl enable docker #reboot Install Homebrew first!…
VAMI Backups logging with VRLI
We needed a way to check if the VAMI file level backups of our vCenters and PSC's have succeeded or not so i went ahead and started searching for a…