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Symptoms A VMware administrator has been tidying up an old ESX host prior to decommissioning and has accidentally clicked Delete on a shared datastore rather than Unmount. The datastore is not connected to any powered on VMs so the datastore content promptly disappears from all the hosts in the cluster. Following this …
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My organisation has a user-facing application portal, distributing Application Jukebox and direct download apps from one central location. However, we use SCCM to distribute some applications and have been stuck in the unsatisfactory situation of having to direct users to two different sites depending on what …
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I sat, and passed, the Microsoft 70-410 exam in Windows Server 2012R2 last week. Whilst I’m not going to report everything on the test (both because I’m not allowed to, and because I can’t remember all the details) hopefully this post will provide a few pointers for others studying for the exam. The Resources I Used …
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Here’s another little PowerShell script that might be useful. This was knocked up to provide some basic load testing on the search function of a web application I had written- an ASP.NET form with a text field and submit button. It continuously visits the search page on the website, and submits the search term (“Bob” …
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I’ve had a number of times over the years where I’ve needed to guarantee to someone that their data is unchanged as a result of an IT action when we’ve migrated servers, replaced disks etc. The detailed, in depth, article by Jeff Hicks over at Petri.com “Hashing it Out in PowerShell: Using Get-FileHash” showed me that …
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Despite having attended the annual VMware-hosted London vForums a few times this was my first VMware User Group meeting. The all-day event, held at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, featured a number of talks from, and discussions with, both suppliers and the VMware user community. A Giant Mountain of …
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In an ESXi environment with no Storage vMotion I had the need to move a production VM from one datastore to another. As this would involve downtime, it was scheduled for an out-of-hours slot. So that I didn’t need to stay up all night and fire the process of manually, I came up with the following PowerShell/PowerCLI …
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In case you missed it, here are some highlights of this blog from the last year. Finding XP and Server 2003 VMs with PowerCLI VMWare vForum London 2014 Using ADSI Edit to work with LDAP Paths in Active Directory Microsoft TechEd Europe 2014 Using RemoteApp to stream Application Jukebox packages Have a great 2015!
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