One nice feature of Citrix XenDesktop is the ability to adjust the number of powered on desktops for Peak and Off Peak hours. This feature is sadly missing from VMware Horizon View. There is, however, away to accomplish the same functionality using View PowerCLI.
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vCoffee Links is a regular feature on vHersey.com. vCoffee Links features news and links of interest from the past week or so. If you have something interesting to add please submit it in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @herseyc.
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vCoffee Links is a weekly feature on vHersey.com. vCoffee Links features news and links of interest from the past week or so. If you have something interesting to add please submit it in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @herseyc.
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Snapshots are a great tool but it is important that you monitor the snapshots to ensure they do not grow too large. This post covers some different options that are available for monitoring snapshot usage.
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This script uses the PowerCLI cmdlet Get-EsxCli to execute the esxcli command to set the default PSP policy for the specified SATP on each host in vCenter Inventory.
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This is the second post in a series of PowerCLI scripts I use when doing new vSphere implementations. This PowerCLI script configures the primary and alternate DNS servers, the domain name, and the NTP settings of each ESXi hosts.
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This first PowerCLI script creates a new Data Center in vCenter inventory and adds a list of ESXi hosts to the new Data Center. Nothing real fancy here but the script does help speed up adding ESXi hosts to the vCenter inventory.
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The discussion lead to what happens if you lose everything, say in the event of a power failure or something like that. We did not get to deep into designing the infrastructure correctly to make sure things like that do not happen we focused on the “Well what if it did?”
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The VCAP5-DCA Blueprint has objectives on working with ESXi Image Profiles and configuring VMware Auto Deploy which are both new features that were released with vSphere 5.
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Free iPad/iPhone/iPod app for referencing the VMware vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets. vSphere PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and is used for managing and automating vSphere.
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In the TCC lab (and in many production environments) the default gateway filters ICMP packets. In order for HA to
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