Welcome VMworld 2018
VMworld is here, and I will be presenting on it! Without a doubt a proud moment in my career, even though slightly terrifying as it will be my first time… Read more »
Category: VMware
Add VMKernel port to several hosts
Who likes to configure VMKs on hosts? A couple is totally fine, a few hundreds is not fun! Unless… …We use powercli!! Code Snippet below: $esx=”my-esx-hostname-” $switchname=”mySwitchName” $net=”192.168.45.” 1..100 |… Read more »
VMware vSphere 6.7 is out!
What a moment! Below you can find the announcement page which I rather share than rewording what Himanshu wrote 🙂 A good few features, but my favorite one is improved… Read more »
PowerCLI on MAC or Linux? Cool!!!
The last couple years Microsoft is shifting to open source and with that our beloved powershell has become Opensource too. This allows us to run PowerCLI on both MAC and… Read more »
Standard Switch, creating portgroups
I’m a big advocate of DVS, but licensing is not always available, so for those who use Standard Switches, here’s an error free way of creating Portgroups in all your… Read more »
Upgrade E1000 to VMXNET3
ahhh the old days when the latest and greatest was E1000! Honestly it was so long ago that I cannot remember! That said, some folks like to use it due… Read more »
Start/Stop VMs
Starting and stopping VMs is not that difficult, so why script it? Well… don’t want to be clicking on a bunch of VMs trying to skip the ones that should… Read more »
Enabling/Disabling SSH on ESXI hosts
As promised, simple way to enable/disable SSH on the fly! Start: Get-VMHost | Foreach {Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where { $_.Key -eq “TSM-SSH”} )} Stop: Get-VMHost | Foreach… Read more »
Supress SSH warning
Some of us enjoy the thrills of having SSH enabled in our hosts but dislike the warning each host throws at us. Here’s how to disable it, use at your… Read more »
Configure NTP (The lazy way)
NTP, such an important and sometimes forgotten service. Other services rely on it heavily, eg. SSO, yet it can be quite cumbersome to configure if you do it host by… Read more »