There was an interesting discussion on our internal Socialcast platform last week on figuring out how an ESXi host is booted up whether it is from local device like a disk or USB device, Auto Deploy or even boot from SAN along with its respective boot device? Although I had answered the question, I was […]
How to audit vSphere API usage?
I was recently reminded of an excellent VMworld 2017 session that given by Ravi Soundararajan, a Principal Engineer at VMware working in our vCenter Server Performance Team. In his session, vCenter Server Performance Deep Dive, Ravi provides some great insights into things to consider that may have an impact on vCenter Server performance. In addition, he also covered a […]
When to use Move-VM cmdlet vs xMove.ps1 script for performing Cross vCenter vMotions?
Since publishing my Automating Cross vCenter vMotion between the same and different SSO Domain article back in early 2016, I have had a large number of customers reach out to me and share their success stories of allowing them to perform datacenter migrations to consolidating vCenter Servers all due to this awesome capability that was introduced in […]
Automating VM keystrokes using the vSphere API & PowerCLI
I am constantly amazed at the number of new use cases that can now be enabled with some of the new and updated capabilities of our vSphere Platform. I recently discovered a new vSphere API that was introduced in vSphere 6.5 called PutUsbScanCodes() which may sound a little strange but it enables some really slick Automation capabilities. This […]
PowerCLI script to help correlate vCenter, ESXi & vSAN build/versions w/o manual VMware KB lookup
I can still remember when I was a VI Admin and how annoying it was to try to correlate the build numbers for my ESX(i) hosts and vCenter Servers that I have deployed with the versions listed on VMware’s website. This especially gets challenging when there are multiple patch releases (a, b, c or 01, […]