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New Fling: vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script by VMware Labs

New Fling: vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script. The download is available as zip package and the total size is about 1MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: This is a PowerShell script written to help customers validate their environment and assess if it is ready for a 5.1.x upgrade. The script checks against known misconfiguration and issues raised with VMware Support. This script checks the Windows Server and Active Directory configuration and provides an on…

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VMworld 2012: INF-VSP1252: What’s New with vSphere 5.1 – ESXCLI & PowerCLI

VMworld 2012: INF-VSP1252: What’s New with vSphere 5.1 – ESXCLI & PowerCLI

Session abstract In this session Technical Marketing automation experts William Lam and Alan Renouf will take you through What’s New in ESXCLI and PowerCLI for the vSphere 5.1 release. In this session Alan and William will take you through the exciting features available to use when automating VMware products, both beginners and experts will learn how to use new features to make your life easier and more productive. The session The session was split into 2 parts, first William talked…

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PowerCLI one-liner: remove the VMware tools mounted ISO

PowerCLI one-liner: remove the VMware tools mounted ISO

When you do an “Automatic Tools Upgrade” on a virtual machine the VMware tools iso will be mounted into the VM. Unfortunately it sometimes happens that after the upgrade the iso stays attached and this will result in a warning while doing a manual VMotion. When you inspect the VM (edit settings) you will see the ISO being mounted. You can change this to Client Device and the ISO will be unmounted and the warning won’t be shown anymore. Obviously…

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Monitoring Veeam FLR sessions using PowerCLI

Monitoring Veeam FLR sessions using PowerCLI

Veeam Backup & Replication comes with a few built-in PowerShell cmdlets. Sadly I couldn’t find a cmdlet which allows me to monitor running Veeam FLR sessions. Keep in mind that this post only works when you run a FLR which is a non-Windows virtual machine!! When you perform a restore, Veeam Backup & Replication will start an extra virtual machine which runs with the name VeeamFLR-SERVERNAME-randomhash. The script below will see if a restore is running for a defined amount…

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Bye Debian/Ubuntu guest customization, hello PowerCLI and Bash

Bye Debian/Ubuntu guest customization, hello PowerCLI and Bash

With the vSphere 5 release VMware decided to drop some operating systems using the guest customization wizard. This was already announced with the 4.1 release notes and has gone active now. I guess VMware had the idea that in time people would replace them with supported guest systems. Quote from the KB: Starting with vSphere 5.0, the support for customization of these operating systems is deprecated: Debian (All versions) Ubuntu (All versions) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Update 1-7 Red…

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