I made a simple script for 1 job : changing the portgroup for multiple vm’s in the same portgroup.The script will ask which portgroup you want to move vm’s from using a selection after that using the same method it will ask you for the portgroup to move to. Then it will change all the…
When upgrading Network Insight 6.7 to Patch 4 due to this security risk i ran into failures with insufficient disk space. After a bit of research i thought the minimum disk space of 2TB was not met for the appliance (due to previous upgrades) so i added disks to get to that and all lights…
to be able to remove the default cluster which usually is the first cluster in your Workload domain you have to change it to another cluster which remains behind. with this command you can perform on the SDDC Manager’s CLI you can change it. Make sure you take a snapshot before attempting this process! Login…
I needed to make a automated way to check vm’s for mounted ISO’s, existing snapshots and running vmware tools for a cross vcenter migration. so i started to look for the neccesary one liners that got me the info i needed to make a complete check around all the info and report back in the…
Let me start by saying how great is was to get together again in Barcelona, as it was only my second time there it still felt amazing to be there again. This time around i was part of the Orange Army (ITQ) and that made it only feel better! Some small impressions from my side…
Hereby my take on a scripted version of creating a networkpool in VCF! Please look at the code before using because there are some assumptions in there that may mess up your ip subnets. This is made for a customer based on their needs and design so test before using at your customer! This one will make a VSAN and…
I have been scripting alot of post tasks after creating a new cluster for a existing Workload domain in VCF. Here they are : The first one is to join all your hosts to Active Directory for local authentication: This one will rename those nasty local datastores to their respective hostnames! The next one will…
We had a dead host in our environment which needed a reinstall due to a failed boot drive. So we needed to remove the host from the Workload domain. We used the VMware documented way to remove it : https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/4.4/vcf-admin/GUID-41BE1B30-8D52-43BF-8297-0059B92D723D.html We used the “normal” way and not Force because we had enough hosts left :…
We ran into an issue where our remote collectors only worked for a couple days and after that we had to reset (reboot) them to start collecting again. Instead of troubleshooting the issue we choose to redeploy the appliances with more resources (large). We have 2 remote collectors per VCF site and we choose to…
The quickest way to recover from a expired vCenter root password in a VCF environment is too connect to the vcenter with SSH and it will prompt you to enter a new password. It might be that the SSH session will log you out very fast so have old and new passwords ready! If you…
