After the installation of the latest vSphere 4.1 patches all hosts displayed a warning about Local & Remote Tech Support Mode being enabled. As I didn’t file like manually stopping the services on every host I took the time to write a script which can start/stop Local and Remote Tech Support mode on all hosts …

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One of the new features in vSphere 4.1 is the ability to configure Host affinity rules for DRS. These enable you to split your vSphere cluster in several groups of hosts and assign assign a subset of your VMs to one of these groups. There are plenty of use cases for this: Netapp Metrocluster Applications licensed based …

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VMware just released vSphere 4.1, Site Recovery Manager 4.1 and VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.3. What’s new in vSphere 4.1. The downloads can be found at: vCenter 4.1 ESX 4.1 - Release Notes ESXi 4.1 - Release Notes Site Recovery Manager 4.1 – Release Notes vSphere PowerCLI 4.1 vSphere CLI 4.1 vSphere Management …

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Notepad++ supports Powershell from version v5.6 but the VMware PowerCLI cmdlets aren’t included.

So I created PowerCLI Language definition file for syntax highlighting. It contains the cmdlets available in vSphere PowerCLI 4 Update 1 and vCenter Update Manager PowerCLI 4 Update 1.

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I had to configure additional portgroups based on vlanids on a vSphere cluster. I couldn’t use host profiles to apply the configuration on all hosts. 1$vCenter = Connect-VIServer -server(Read-Host "Please enter the name of your vCenter Server.") 2$Cluster = Get-Cluster -Name (Read-Host "Please enter the …

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VMware opened the registration for VMworld 2010. Image not found Web path: http://k0v3.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/image_thumb.png Disk path: /static/http://k0v3.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/image_thumb.png Using Page Bundles: false More Labs - Self Paced All Labs are self-paced so you have more freedom and options to …

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[On a Virtual Center 4 update 1 installation I [noticed]{style=“border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc;”} an Perf Charts service error on the performance overview tab. The advanced performance tab is functioning as normal.]{style=“font-family:sans-serif;”} [ …

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Last I encountered some errors while doing a storage VMotion for a couple of VMs during a migration from ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.1. Image not found Web path: http://k0v3.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/image_thumb.png Disk path: /static/http://k0v3.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/image_thumb.png Using Page Bundles: false …

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I just came across a post by Jonathan Meddover at simple-talk.com about the new Active Directory recycle bin in Windows Server 2008 R2. It’s definitely worth the read.

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Jon Hall confirmed the names of the new vSphere certifications which will be released somewhere in May. VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Enterprise Admin VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Design In order to become VCAP you need to be VCP 4 and then take an additional exam. The Enterprise Admin 4 exam for …

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