by vMan | Oct 14, 2020 | Lab, vSAN
My plan here is not to reinvent the wheel, William Lam has provided lot’s of detail on what’s needed / how to, including a new post on getting Pi OS running! + you will also find the resources you need over at the Flings page. See below some photos, my...
by vMan | Mar 1, 2020 | Monitoring, Powershell, vRops, vSAN
This following post is for anyone which needs to manage storage policies at scale and uses vRops. Imagine the scene, you have 1000’s of servers mostly with the default storage policy for the specific datastore but then some edge case VM’s require a...
by vMan | Mar 28, 2019 | Random, vRops, vSAN
So this next post is to expand on Sunny Dua’s “Automatically place ESXi hosts in maintenance in vROps using properties” blog post. I have been using a similar method in my own environment for some time but with a slight twist…. For example I...
by vMan | Oct 24, 2017 | Powershell, vCenter, vSAN
So this next post is about my experience with vSAN when using multiple storage policies and the headache that comes with managing a large vSAN environment when you have too many cooks in the kitchen!! The environment I help manage has many clusters with many different...
by vMan | Oct 20, 2017 | vRops, vSAN
So recently I was asked to create an alert which would help identify hosts with less than 1 DiskGroups…. unfortunately you wont find a vRops metric at the Host System object which counts the number of DiskGroup…. so I had to create a super metric by taking...
by vMan | Aug 8, 2017 | Random, vCenter, vSAN
I don’t have time to write a long winded post + sexigraf has all the details on their site but I thought I would share this cool tool.. I was looking at automating data extraction from PowerCLI / vCenter API for vSAN resync metrics which are unfortunately...
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