While getting some workflows built up and running in vRA/vRO recently we wanted to have changes/requests/incidents logged during the workflow to save going over to SNOW to log them. If you haven’t seen it ServiceNow has a really good developer…
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Configure TPS with vRA & vRO
One topic that seems to come up occasionally since it was disabled by default (KB2097593) is what people are doing with TPS. It seems to becoming common for companies to want to sweat their assets more now so making use…
Scripts now on GitHub
I’ve recently started moving my scripts over to GitHub. Seeing that I still like to use a GUI I’ve installed GitHub Desktop on my PCs so I can access them easially and save to a single location along with the other…
PowerShell, Syslog & LogInsight
As part of a planning process to deploy LogInsight and looking at different use cases, we thought it might be good to be able to send log data from PowerShell scripts to LogInsight, this could be purely info messages or detailed errors…
Updating firmware on Micron PCI SSD
Recently we had some new Dell R720s with Micron P420m SSDs arrive that are due to be installed in a VSAN cluster, during the process we needed to update the firmware on the cards before we commissioned the environment. Before…
vCentre Migration Script
Here is a little script that I put together recently to make the process of migrating VMs between two vCentre servers easier and to also make some changes to the VMs during the process, for us this was to disable…
Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCentre
Recently as part of a vSphere 5.5 upgrade we deployed v2 of the Dell vCentre Integration tool to allow low level monitoring of the hosts and to also simplify the process of firmware upgrade and device inventory. This is just…
Design considerations for EVC mode
So the other day over our last day at VMworld 2014, the topic of EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) popped up with the following questions; When should it be enabled? What level should it be set to? And finally what is…
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Making use of tags with MSCS
After configuring a bunch of Microsoft Clusters recently I thought it might be handy to see in the vCentre client (web) what resources were on the VMs or better yet be able to search for the cluster resource – because…
VCAP5-DCD
Towards the end of 2013 I thought I might as well try get this exam behind me before kid v2 came along. Even after doing the old trick of booking the exam to force yourself to study, I didn’t know…
