Automate bulk Windows and Linux VMs creation from template with Guest OS customization

VMware vSphere Infrastructure build completed, tested and ready for workloads. What’s next? Right, it’s time to create bunch of Windows and Linux VMs for customers! Fastest way to do so – prepare VMware PowerCLI / PowerShell script. In my case as part of the project I had to build 200+… Continue reading

VM Latency Sensitivity set to High still fails with no (proper) warning

Hello, it’s been a while since I last blogged, had a busy few years, took a sabbatical or there was nothing to blog about without breaching a NDA. Anyway I’m back here with a new issue which may help some of those who are virtualizing latency sensitive workloads, a niche… Continue reading

VMware NSX VPN tunnels statistics collection with PowerShell

I’ve been assigned the task of gathering VPN statistics for a client. Their system operates on VMware NSX 4.0.0.1. After checking, I found that the current PowerCLI lacks the capability to extract VPN statistics. Since VMware NSX has a RestAPI interface, we can perform various actions through RestAPI calls. I’ve… Continue reading

Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 2, DLRs)

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Part 2 This is Part 2 for the article “Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 1, ESGs)”. I’m going to show how you can export configuration for DLRs in your environment. How to use this script The way to use script is the same as in… Continue reading

Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 1, ESGs)

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Why do you need this. If you work with VMware NSX on daily basis you should care about Backup & Restore procedure. According to VMware you can schedule NSX Manager backup and think you are on safe side but restore procedure requires to perform full NSX Manager restore and then… Continue reading