Sysadmin Stories

The reason I`ve chosen this method is not having VUM installed and also wanting to remember a bit of esxcli. The process is pretty simple: ...

I`ve recently managed to crash my test lab. One of the rebuild tasks was to reinstall vCloud Director - the hard way: dropping the DB and r...

After a long absence, partially motivated by changing my job while organizing a VMUG meeting, I`ve found a bit of time to restart working a...

One of the features Enterprise license brings to VMware vSphere is Distributed Power Management (DPM). This feature saves power by dynamic...

While preparing for configuring DPM on one of the clusters, I noticed that templates are scattered around all the hosts. A design best prac...

In this post I will cover some of the aspects of using vShield Edge (vSE) devices at vApp level, mostly things I have learnt the hard way. ...

This little piece of code displays information about VMware tools status for one or more VMs. Output can be configured to display running s...