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I came to deploy a Virtual Machine from a Content Library on vSphere 6.5 and discovered that the Content Library had disappeared. Cause The Content Library Service was stopped. Attempting to start the service caused an error- both through the GUI and command line. 1VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.0.10000 2Type: …
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Tags were added to vSphere back in version 5.1 so they’re not a new feature but are still often overlooked. One or more tags can be applied to items (entities) in the inventory and then used as a search term or metadata not only in the GUI but also through tools such as PowerCLI. This post covers a few useful cmdlets …
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A quick PowerCLI one liner to locate VMs with thick-provisioned disks attached. 1Get-VM | 2 Select Name, @{Name="StorageFormat"; Expression={( Get-HardDisk -VM $_ ).StorageFormat}} | 3 Where-Object {$_.StorageFormat -Contains "Thick"}
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I was lucky enough to take delivery of some new ESXi hosts recently. After installing them in the datacentre, I wanted to test that the network had been patched correctly. This environment is going to have Distributed vSwitches configured, but I wanted to test the physical connectivity before joining them to vCenter- …
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Some highlights from VMware ecosystem and Virtualisation in general from the past 7 days. Announcements, discoveries, and useful bits-and-bobs found on the internet. Week ending 2nd April 2017 VMworld 2017 Session Voting is now open. An chance for the VMware community to influence what appears on the agenda at the two …
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VMware vSphere 6.5 comes with a RESTful API implementation and there’s some great documentation out there- starting with the API Explorer (http://my.vcenter.name/apiexplorer ). Here’s a quick piece on how to use this API to create a VM from the PowerShell command line. This is intentionally not using PowerCLI, just the …
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The deployment of High Availability in the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 is very slick and there’s a great step-by-step walkthrough of how to implement it. However, sometimes things go wrong In my case a misconfiguration in the underlying network meant that the hosts I was trying to deploy to couldn’t reach each other …
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