Today i was asked to confirm the BIOS version of all the hosts in a customers estates to allow them to plan an upgrade. Initially they had planned to check each iLO individually which would have been extremely time consuming, fortunately, there is a quick PowerCLI method: get-vmhost | select name, @{N=” Model”;E={($_ | get-view).hardware.systeminfo.Model}},
It is with great pleasure that i can announce i have been selected in this years vExpert Program. Over the past 18 months i have tried to increase my engagement in the vCommunity by writing new blog posts, engaging on Twitter/LinkedIn and by assisting on the VMTN forums where possible. Going forward im going to
SharePoint CU Upgrade process Overview ALWAYS USE THE INSTALL ACCOUNT – It will make your life a lot easier.Download all CU files inc cab files and store in a single folder – See Step 1Backup Everything – See Step 2Confirm there are no pre-existing errors & gather information about environment such as Farm Administrator login
I recently had the fun of updating a SharePoint 2013 environment from a patch level of sometime in 2016 all the way up to 2020. A big jump like that makes me nervous as there can be a significant level of change over the years…. luckily for the most part it all run smoothly and
10th of March, 11am PDT…. That is the date of the big announcement by VMware on the next generation of vSphere! With project pacific having been in beta for some time now i am super excited to see how vSphere is going to evolve to the next level and how Kubernetes is integrated. This is
As I am sure you’re aware, AMD has been releasing some monster CPUs with as many as 64 cores per socket & Intel with up to 48 cores per socket. This has lead to it being possible to move to single socket servers while still being able to satisfy CPU demand… Up to this point,
Here is a short script that will list all VMs that have Swapped & Ballooned Memory, it can be useful for tracking down VMs experiencing performance issues on clusters running into contention issues get-vm | select name, @{N=’MemoryMB’;E={$_.MemoryMB}}, @{N=’SwappedMemory’;E={$_.ExtensionData.Summary.QuickStats.SwappedMemory}}, @{N=’Ballooned’;E={$_.ExtensionData.Summary.QuickStats.BalloonedMemory}} | Where {$_.SwappedMemory -ne “0” -or $_.Ballooned -ne “0”} | ft
While I know there are a 1000 blog posts out there talking about CPU overcommitment, I felt compelled to write my own following a conversation I had recently. Me: “I’ve noticed you’re running 6.25:1 overcommitment ratio. Have you looked into how your VMs are performing recently? Customer: “No, the hosts CPU doesn’t look busy and
ESXi6.5 Security Hardening Guide OK, take a seat… this is going to be a long script! I have put together a menu system that will report on all ESXi6.5 Security Hardening Guide settings that are NOT DEFAULT, if you have made additional changes to your configuration you should go through the entire SHG to ensure
The script below pulls a list of your clusters with their CPU & Memory Total Capacity as well as how much has been provisioned. It then displays the ratio to physical to virtual to help you maintain your over-commitment ratios. Its setup as a function so you can choose whether to display text on screen
