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October 6, 2009 | 10 comments

With VMware vSphere, ESX, and VMFS, running out of space on a datastore does not cause damage to virtual machines. It is easy to recover without even a guest OS reboot.

October 2, 2009 | 15 comments

When a datastore in your VMware vSphere environment is about to fill up, you can have vCenter automatically spring into action to prevent downtime by using Storage VMotion.

April 16, 2009 | No comments

SCVMM adds a custom attribute to VirtualCenter (vCenter).

February 5, 2009 | 19 comments

By using Console2 with PowerShell and the VI Toolkit, users have much better text manipulation capabilities as well as the option to use different fonts.

February 2, 2009 | No comments

The VI Toolkit for Windows overrides an existing PowerShell prompt function. Here is one simple way to restore a desired setting.

January 29, 2009 | No comments

The System Center Operations Manager Management Pack (MP) for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 was finally released yesterday.  As I wrote previously, the documentation was initially misleading on this feature — eventually we learned that the MP would ship 60 days after SCVMM 2008 released. Let’s use PowerShell to find out if Microsoft made [...]

January 28, 2009 | 1 comment

There is a new version of the VI Toolkit (for Windows) up for the taking now, with quite a few new cmdlets and fixes.  Visit the official blog for links to download and read the release notes.  I installed the upgrade on top of my existing 1.0 without any issues.  (Wow, the download now weighs [...]

January 22, 2009 | 1 comment

Although SLES 10 is supposedly supported by SCVMM 2008, administrators must look elsewhere for a Linux guest customization solution.

January 14, 2009 | 3 comments

Even though the VI Client does not offer creation of VMs with thin-provisioned disks, they may exist. Use a PowerShell script to identify them.

January 5, 2009 | 3 comments

When System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) connects to VirtualCenter/vCenter, several changes are made. Learn how to recover everything with PowerShell.