Sorry it’s taken so long but here is my 1st post (of many) since my change of Job. In my new environment machine history isn’t retained upon a machine rebuild, so how do I determine what a machine had before it was rebuilt? Well there is no “easy” answer to this, the company historically used a vbs …
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Bad news is that as of the 2011-12-31 I finished working for my Employer in order to move back to my home country, so I no longer have direct access to (and responsibility for) VMWare (and all the other really cool stuff we had, infini-band, HPC etc.) To top it off I was told before I left …
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One of my users was complaining of “slow vm performance over the network”, so I requested a few simple diags including a traceroute from his machine to the vm instead I got a traceroute from the VM to the VM. So I decided that clearly I was asking too much from the user and threw …
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This is a function that allows you to clone a VM from a specified snapshot. The only way to do this in the UI would be to take a snapshot of the current state, revert to the one you wish to clone, clone, revert to latest snapshot and then delete latest snapshot. As you can …
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After a mass of updates to the code a new version is out, this is still experimental so should only be used in a lab environment.
This little gem I wrote will listen to all interfaces on a computer for CDP packets. Once it has looped all the interfaces any packets it has captured are processed and added to WMI. Using the attached SMS_DEF.mof we can extract that information and place it in SCCM. Anyone who knows what CDP is will …
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Managed to get a few more tweaks / scripts into the pack today. You can grab the powerpack from here:
Updated: 2013-11-20 – Added User submitted version of script to downloads. I have tweaked my powershell script for the SCCM Dell/HP tags due to popular demand so that it can be run on a single machine using a list of service tags as the source and then will output to a CSV file. The source …
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Deprecated – VMWare have release an official checker and there is a better script at http://virtu-al.net This is a script I wrote to check vSphere 5 vRAM compliance.
Sorry to all those that have tried to contact me via the contact form, for some reason hotmail has been blocking emails from anyone not in my address book for what seems to be some time. I have no idea why or when they started this. I have changed the destination address for the contact …
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