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
We are using AppVolumes Manager on several environments together with Horizon View. When we were deploying the first AppVolume Manager I was asked to provide permissions for AppVolume Manager to local ESXi hosts to avoid using root permissions. There are guides which you can use to setup all required permissions… Continue reading
Having the appropriate access levels assigned to each user or group helps mitigate the security concerns as well as lowers the risk of human error. You certainly don’t want people other than VMware admins to mess with hosts, clusters, virtual switches or the storage. There are some predefined Roles which… Continue reading
In a data center migration project the storage teams as well as the target VMware team were constantly requesting information for the VMs in each migration group. Along with the basic VM info such as vCPUs, memory, provisioned space, guest OS, they required more details for the VMDKs – datastore,… Continue reading
Recently I had situation where a few misconfigured VMs were not able to be migrated to any of the other hosts in the cluster, which came as a surprise during our maintenance window. This made me want to be a step ahead and minimize unplanned troubleshooting for future. If you… Continue reading
