Re: Guests without vShield Driver or Thin Agent Enabled
The info you see in the vSphere client comes from the vShield plugin.You can query vShield with some REST calls, Alan did a module for that.I'll have a look.
View Articlesnapshot certain vms
Hello together, as you can read in the title of this thread, i´m searching for a possibility to snapshot certain virtual machines including their memory using a powercli-script. So far I was able to...
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Re: Guests without vShield Driver or Thin Agent Enabled
Hi Luc, I'm just interested in Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012. Yes I ran the script you attached earlier. Also if you see the image attached, the result "False" Those servers have vShield driver install...
View ArticleRe: VM List on conditions to be generated.
Yes. The same thing. I can accept why. The array which gets created has elements which are unset. Whether that is blank or null is not really for argument, as it is behaving as I expect it would. It is...
View ArticleRe: Guests without vShield Driver or Thin Agent Enabled
I just found this, is this what you were talking about http://www.virtu-al.net/2012/01/04/vmware-vshield-powershell-module/
View ArticleRe: Bought Fusion 5 pro and can't get the VMware Tools to install
Additional solution after Woodys' - Please check whether Mirror Folder is checked or not, if it's checked, please disable it then try to install Tools again.
View ArticleRe: snapshot certain vms
You can add the RunAsync switch on the New-Snapshot cmdlet.That way the cmdlet will return immediately and your script will continue with the next line.Just make sure not to overload your environment...
View ArticleRe: Guests without vShield Driver or Thin Agent Enabled
Yes, but I'm not sure how to query the vShield Manager for the information you're after.
View ArticleRe: VM List on conditions to be generated.
Can't you just update the script like this$allvms = @() $vmlist = Get-Vm | where {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} ForEach ($vm in $vmlist){ $vmv = $vm | Get-View $vms = "" | Select Name #, OS...
View ArticleCitrix Desktop machines unavailable on VCenter 5.1
Hello Experts, We are doing Citrix VDI Testing on Cisco UCS Blade. We are going to find out the performance and scalability of the UCS Blade using Vmware 5.1 as the Hypervisor, and Citrix for...
View ArticleRe: snapshot certain vms
Hi LucD, thanks a lot for your fast reply. I just tried the RunAsync command and it worked out. Concerning your annotation to watch out not to overload the environment, do you also have an idea how to...
View ArticleRe: Windows Server 2012 slow on ESXi 5.1U1
Dear reyntjensw, thanks for reply.The ready time of my host is as follows: * Last: 578ms* Max: 1045ms* Min: 533ms*Average: 603ms Can you explain me in short what these values mean? Best regardsMatthias.
View ArticleRe: snapshot certain vms
You will have to set up your own mechanism to limit the maximum number of async snapshot tasks.See for example my About Async tasks, the Get-Task cmdlet and a hash table post. Depending on the vSphere...
View ArticleHow do I create mutiple admin accounts on vMA?
Dear Friends, As we all known, the vMA has only two built-in account vi-admin and vi-user. In our farm there are serveral Esxi engineer, I want them login with their ow IDs on vMA. Can anyone guide me...
View Articleinstall fails with One or more of the Vcenter components was not installed.
It suggests checking the log files, but I'm not sure what to look for to find the problem component. If you've hit this issue and solved it, please let me know what you did and/or what to look for....
View ArticleRe: Bought Fusion 5 pro and can't get the VMware Tools to install
1. If this is Microsoft Office that you're having issue with then turning off Accelerate 3D Graphics. Have a look at Enable Accelerated 3D GraphicstThis was turned on so I left it alone.Other then...
View ArticleRe: VM NICs disconnected after failover
Hi, okay... so I had a similar thought to you. We are using a distributed switch with probably around 20 VLANs on different port groups on it. The vDS switch that we were just failing over to for this...
View ArticleRe: HBA Failure Behavior
Thanks guys.. so essentially it would be safe to say the VMs would not gracefully migrate over to another host unless I forced an HA event (i.e. rebooted the host) in which case though it would prob be...
View ArticleRe: Can you change which kernel ports does vmotion without going into...
Yes, if vMotion cannot talk with other vMotion ports on other hosts it will just not work. Although it is possible to combine Management and vMotion, I'd try to avoid it, because vMotion can consume...
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