Identifying & Fixing Virtual Machines Affected By SvMotion / VDS Issue
UPDATE 07/13/2012 - vSphere 5.0 Update 1a has just been released which resolves this issue, please take a look here for more details for the patch as this script is no longer required. Duncan Epping...
View ArticleAutomatically Remediating SvMotion / VDS Issue Using vCenter Alarms
UPDATE 07/13/2012 - vSphere 5.0 Update 1a has just been released which resolves this issue, please take a look here for more details for the patch as this script is no longer required. In my previous...
View ArticleWhat Are the Shadow of vmnic in ESXTOP?
In ESXi 5.1, you might have noticed something new called Shadow of vmnic under the USED-BY column in the Network view of ESXTOP. I initially heard about this from a few followers on twitter and I was...
View ArticleAutomate the migration from Virtual Standard Switch to vSphere Distributed...
I have been spending quite a bit of time in the lab lately working with some of our "future" software and one of the fun tasks I get to do is perform frequent rebuilds of my lab environment. Depending...
View ArticleAutomate the reverse, migrating from vSphere Distributed Switch to Virtual...
Last week I demonstrated how you can easily leverage the new PowerCLI 5.5 VDS cmdlets to migrate from a VSS (Virtual Standard Switch) to a VDS (vSphere Distributed Switch). During the development of...
View ArticleRetrieving statistics for a Distributed Virtual Port using the vSphere API &...
Over the weekend I received an email from a fellow colleague over in the NSBU who was interested in retrieving statistics on an individual Distributed Virtual Port using the vSphere API and had asked...
View ArticleMigrating ESXi to a Distributed Virtual Switch with a single NIC running...
Earlier this week I needed test something which required a VMware Distributed Virtual Switch (VDS) and this had to be a physical setup, so Nested ESXi was out of the question. I could have used my...
View ArticleMoving ESXi hosts with LACP/LAG between vCenter Servers?
At VMworld this year, I had received several questions from customers asking whether it was possible to move an ESXi host configured using LACP/LAG from one vCenter Server to another, similar to the...
View ArticleQuick Tip - Retrieving vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) DVPort ID & Stats...
I have seen several variations of this question get asked internally on how how to retrieve the DVPort ID and/or Stats on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS). Usually the question is prefaced with an...
View ArticleHow to manually clean up a Distributed Virtual Switch (VDS) on an ESXi host?
If an ESXi host was connected to a Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) and you were not able to properly remove it from the vCenter inventory, which cleans up the VDS as part of the removal, then you will...
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